unsufferable

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"What an unsufferable bore that man is, and how he did talk!" the Major said.

From The History of Pendennis by Thackeray, William Makepeace

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

And yet both for declining and declaring their extorted answers about this, they were condemned as unsufferable maintainers of principles inconsistent with government.

From A Hind Let Loose Or, An Historical Representation of the Testimonies of the Church of Scotland for the Interest of Christ. With the True State Thereof in All Its Periods by Shields, Alexander

Among all their privations, what they felt the most unsufferable, was the want of salt, of which they had not been able to procure the smallest supply for above two hundred leagues.

From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 04 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time by Kerr, Robert

This terrible uncle had become absolutely unsufferable now that his sister was no longer there to calm him down.

From The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard by France, Anatole