unmentionable

Example Sentences

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She plans to sweep away the cobwebs and inject warmth and life into a farm mired in portentous dialogue and unmentionable secrets.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 12, 2025

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

From BBC • May 15, 2023

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.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 12, 2022

Your envy will only feel bigger and thornier if you treat it as an unmentionable topic or an unthinkable reaction.

From Slate • Oct. 17, 2020

I am worried that we may be overdoing it, taxing its meaning, to conceal an unmentionable reality that we’ve somehow agreed not to talk about in public.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas