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ineffably

ADVERB
unspeakably
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Is this the definition of true luxury — things just being ineffably, subtly yet marvelously better than usual?

From Seattle Times Jun. 14, 2023

For Van Gogh, green wheat captured a sense of both transience and calm: “Young wheat can have something ineffably pure and gentle about it,” he wrote.

From Washington Post Feb. 17, 2022

His unchanging expression is ineffably poignant — at once adamant and forlorn, male and female.

From New York Times Feb. 4, 2021

Enacting its vengeances in gruesome yet ineffably elegant ways, the monster, too, is slowly but satisfyingly revealed to have its own poignant motivations.

From Slate Aug. 12, 2019

Under the inmates’ surface bluster, their cruelty and selfishness, was almost always something ineffably sad.

From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover




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