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of the sort that can be said or spoken; utterable; capable of being said or stated clearly, effectively, etc.

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Usage examples (34)
  • For all that blogging has, at least partly, grown up around saying the unsayable, that is not the point of what follows.
  • I'll take that "unsayable" in the sense of ugly, unpleasant, or disagreeable, and the phenomenon therefore as a common haplology.
  • He opened his hands to avoid saying the unsayable.
  • Saying the unsayable makes you looking doubly strong.
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