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insufferably

adv

Etymology

From insufferable + -ly.

  1. derived from *bʰer-✻ — “to bear, carry”
  2. derived from sufferre
  3. derived from sufferābilis
  4. derived from insouffrable — “which cannot be endured or suffered; something insufferable or unendurable”
  5. derived from souffrable
  6. derived from sufferable
  7. inherited from insufferable — “unbearably painful, intolerable”
  8. formed as insufferably — “insufferable + -ly”

Definitions

  1. In an insufferable manner.

    • He has good cards to play on making Brussels better and slimming the continent's heavyweight welfare states. Both can, not implausibly, be given a New Labourish colouring, though Mr Blair's lectures can sound insufferably Pecksniffian.

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