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intolerable

/ɪnˈtɑləɹəbl̩/ adjective C1
  1. Not tolerable; not capable of being borne or endured.
  2. Extremely offensive or insulting.
  3. Extremely worn and degraded, to the point of being unsafe.
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Come, I beseech you, lend me twenty francs, so that I may buy a dressing-gown; it is intolerable always to be in a coat and boots!
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 1038 · C1
Also that if page 534 finds us only in the second chapter, the length of the first one must have been really intolerable.”
The Valley of Fear, p. 6 · C1
They have a sharp, shrewish look, which I do not like at all; and in her air altogether, there is a self-sufficiency without fashion, which is intolerable.”
Pride and Prejudice, p. 305 · B2
"Sir, this is intolerable!
The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes, p. 48 · B2

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