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insuppressible

[in-suh-pres-uh-buhl] / ˌɪn səˈprɛs ə bəl /








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It came in July, when Ryan Stamper, the former Florida linebacker and current Buckeyes player-development coordinator, witnessed a surpassing workout of pained screams and insuppressible tears.

From Washington Post Oct. 2, 2015

I started at Slate as an intern 2½ years ago, and a colleague recently informed me that my superiors surreptitiously nicknamed me “Sparky” due to my insuppressible exuberance.

From Slate Jan. 16, 2015

And now at once she was struck by it: the almost insuppressible affection with which they had greeted each other, with a certain smiling radiance that beamed from them, involuntarily, irresistibly, unconsciously....

From The Later Life by Louis Couperus

Kid was a witty man, usually overflowing with innocent mirth; even in sight of the gallows his humor was insuppressible.

From Sketches of the Covenanters by J. C. McFeeters

There is a scurry of feet along a dark alley, a scuffle at the end, and the genial rotundity of Brother Lippo Lippi's face, impudent, brilliant, insuppressible, leers into the torchlight.

From Robert Browning by C. H. (Charles Harold) Herford




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