intolerably

Adverb

Meaning

to an unacceptable degree

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Examples

The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid. Jane Austen

I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me. Charles Darwin

The egoist ... destroys the universal importance accorded to moral law by showing that life independent of it is possible. Secondly, and even more intolerably to the pious, he manages to do so with shameless enjoyment. John Carroll

They'd have me out and shoot me the first day they took charge. Anyone like me is intolerably subversive to an authoritarian régime, because I'm not interested in imposing my ideas by force on other people. John Brunner

Words rose above the intolerably laden dumb oxen plodding through the mud. Words without meaning - wonderful words. Virginia Woolf

The ever-present impulse is to push against restriction and, in so doing, to feel intolerably hemmed in. Jacques Barzun

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