insufferablyadv.
/ɪnˈsʌfərəbli/ In an insufferable manner or degree; beyond endurance; intolerably, unbearably.
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the mind > emotion > suffering > cause of mental pain or suffering > quality of being unendurable or intolerable > [adverb]
unsufferablec1420
importably?c1425
unsufferablyc1440
intolerably1482
intolerable?1593
insufferably1625
unsupportably1664
insupportably1671
unbearably1809
unendurably1832
1625 K. Long tr. J. Barclay Argenis iv. xii. 278 Hee grew most insufferably insolent ouer good men.
1694 R. South 12 Serm. II. 288 So insufferably have these Impostors poysoned the Fountains of Morality.
1716 J. Addison Drummer i. 7 He's most insufferably witty upon us about this Story of the Drum.
1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. iii. 379 This mode of travelling..by Englishmen of the present day would be regarded as insufferably slow.
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