See unspeakable on Wiktionary
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"text": "It is true that during the first week hardly a day passed that Erskine did not address himself to Watt, on the subject of Watt's duties. But in the first week Watt's words had not yet begun to fail him, or Watt's world to become unspeakable.",
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"text": "1855-1882, Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, book xv,\nThe endless pride and outstretching of man, unspeakable joys and sorrows."
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"text": "The miser will remember his hoard of gold, the robber his ill-gotten wealth, the angry and revengeful and merciless murderers their deeds of blood and violence in which they revelled, the impure and adulterous the unspeakable and filthy pleasures in which they delighted.",
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"ref": "1926, H.P. Lovecraft, The Outsider:",
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"ref": "2016 October 16, “Third Parties”, in Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, season 3, episode 26, John Oliver (actor), via HBO:",
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"text": "an instance of an unspeakable type",
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"ref": "2008, Trey Nash, Accelerated C# 2008, page 509:",
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"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "shuōbude",
"sense": "incapable of being spoken or uttered",
"word": "說不得 /说不得"
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"code": "cs",
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"sense": "incapable of being spoken or uttered",
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"code": "fi",
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"sense": "incapable of being spoken or uttered",
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "incapable of being spoken or uttered",
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"code": "fr",
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"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "incapable of being spoken or uttered",
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"code": "el",
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"code": "el",
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"sense": "incapable of being spoken or uttered",
"word": "言い知れぬ"
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"word": "непередава́емый"
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"code": "fi",
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"code": "fi",
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"code": "fr",
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"code": "got",
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"code": "el",
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"sense": "unfit to be described",
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"code": "fi",
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