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unmentionable

adjective as in unspeakable

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But it’s the one-two punch of mentioning comedy’s unmentionable performer and the cancel culture boogeyman that generated headlines and tossed lighter fluid and a flipped Zippo onto the social media discourse.

From Salon

That relationship, once an unmentionable topic, is now on the agenda of the winning party.

From BBC

Her continued focus on class, the great American unmentionable, made Ms. Tax a distinct voice.

Jefferson concurred, though the subject touched the most explosive issue of all—namely, the unmentionable fact of slavery.

Family friends recalled Irina McCarthy as her mother’s best friend and their own children’s favorite babysitter, who calmly read aloud the definitions of “various unmentionable words” as the kids giggled endlessly.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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