insufferable
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If I’m right, you beat your neighbors by 3% and get to be insufferable about it at barbecues.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 17, 2025
If you’ve made it this far, you may be thinking that the reviewer is one of those insufferable people who criticizes others to burnish his own self-importance.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2025
Readers who thought “The Poppy War” trilogy didn’t stick the landing, or that Rin became insufferable by the end, will be pleased that “Katabasis” does stick it, and that Alice evolves.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 22, 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
“I mean...okay, the kid is basically a grumpy seventy-year-old man trapped in a seventeen-year-old’s body, but he’s only being this insufferable to try to push you out.”
From "The Darkest Minds" by Alexandra Bracken
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