unsufferable

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Negligence of one's person not only implies an unsufferable indolence, but an indifference whether we please or not.

From The Young Gentleman and Lady's Monitor, and English Teacher's Assistant by Moore, John Hamilton

Now if the doctrine of the church of England be true, as we are obliged to believe, then are all the coelestial machines of prince Arthur unsufferable, as wanting not only human but divine probability.

From The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753) Volume V. by Cibber, Theophilus

There is nothing so unsufferable to me as an old huckster's shop of property.

From Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and Travels, Vol. I (of 2) by Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von

The Defects and unsufferable Abuses which are heard in Recitatives, and not known to those who commit them, are innumerable.

From Observations on the Florid Song or Sentiments on the Ancient and Modern Singers by Galliard, John Ernest

On the contrary, when those conspired against escape, they become harsher and more unsufferable than before, as, in the examples given, Florence, Athens, and Heraclea had cause to know.

From Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius by Thomson, Ninian Hill