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unbearable

adjective B2
  1. So unpleasant or painful as to be unendurable.
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“Then, if you don’t mind, I’ll go with you,” said the Lion, “for my life is simply unbearable without a bit of courage.”
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, p. 35 · B2
It was bad enough to be singled out for punishment from among a dozen equally guilty ones; it was worse still to be sent to sit with a boy, but that that boy should be Gilbert Blythe was heaping insult on injury to a degree utterly unbearable.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 118 · C1
She knew that all Avonlea junior was wondering which would come out first; she even knew that Jimmy Glover and Ned Wright had a bet on the question and that Josie Pye had said there was no doubt in the world that Gilbert would be first; and she felt that her humiliation would be unbearable if she failed.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 271 · C1
“Indeed, Beauchamp, you are unbearable.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 755 · C1

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