insufferable
Example Sentences
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It would be insufferable except for the author telling such tales on himself as the one in which he absent-mindedly booked three different client meetings in three different cities at the same time and date.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 9, 2026
If I’m right, you beat your neighbors by 3% and get to be insufferable about it at barbecues.
From MarketWatch • Oct. 17, 2025
"So I know I'm going to be an insufferable parent. I'll be saying, 'please let me brush your teeth', and the kid's going to be, like, 17."
From BBC • Jul. 24, 2025
This time, however, peppered throughout the script are small acknowledgments of how insufferable June can be.
From Salon • Apr. 8, 2025
We used to be baffled by Kikongo words with so many different meanings: bängala, for most precious and most insufferable and also poisonwood.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
Vocabulary lists containing insufferable
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