Adjective : their insufferable insolence. From Dictionary.com.
As a result folk knew each other to a degree which some would call insufferably well, and yet they did not weary. From Wordnik.com. [The Rapids] Reference
As it turned out, he was 'insufferably' good at studies. From Wordnik.com. [rediff.com] Reference
Already Washington had become insufferably warm, and even. From Wordnik.com. [Peggy Stewart at School] Reference
The Adult was insufferably patronizing, but that was normal. From Wordnik.com. [The Color of Her Panties]
To Nora, who found it a chore, he sounded insufferably superior. From Wordnik.com. [Mistress for a Weekend]
His style of thought and language is to me insufferably irritating. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 5, May, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
If they are fresh and idealistic, they can also be insufferably smug. From Wordnik.com. [Clinton's Growing Pains] Reference
"Besides being insufferably prosy," interpolated plain-spoken Nettie. From Wordnik.com. [Choice Readings for the Home Circle] Reference
The weather was intensely hot and the night became insufferably sultry. From Wordnik.com. [Sixteen Months in Four German Prisons Wesel, Sennelager, Klingelputz, Ruhleben] Reference
"For such a revolting man, you seem insufferably pleased with yourself.". From Wordnik.com. [Dance Of Death]
It was insufferably hot and I was glad to return into the shade of the house. From Wordnik.com. [The Motor Pirate] Reference
In anyone else's hands, the mimelike Sam would be an insufferably fey concoction. From Wordnik.com. [Silent Clown, Chatty Killer] Reference
The debates are protracted to an insufferably tedious length; but the character of. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 339, January, 1844] Reference
One thing I know has been against its adoption, to wit, an insufferably dull style. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 7, 1922] Reference
He lamented his present position in Quebec, which place he found insufferably dull. From Wordnik.com. [The Lady of the Ice A Novel] Reference
Gould, who was a bad shot, had bagged five couple, and patronised him insufferably. From Wordnik.com. [Dr. Jolliffe's Boys] Reference
In comes Mallerie -- and with insufferably haughty gait and countenance, brushes by. From Wordnik.com. [English Travellers of the Renaissance] Reference
Weirdly, none of them seem to have noticed what an insufferably smug little twerp he is. From Wordnik.com. [Summer books for older children: runners and riders] Reference
In fact, Newman (1905-70) was one of the most insufferably serious artists who ever lived. From Wordnik.com. [A Radical's Work Grows Old--Not So Gracefully] Reference
Adelaide with such an air of contemptuous curiosity as seemed to him insufferably insolent. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 098, February, 1876] Reference
And this work will be insufferably tedious and, taken by itself, may be very unilluminating. From Wordnik.com. [The Unity of Civilization] Reference
The girls then realized that the air was close and that it was insufferably hot where they were. From Wordnik.com. [The Meadow-Brook Girls Under Canvas] Reference
So in youth we eagerly read of blood and glory and wild adventure; Trollope is insufferably dull. From Wordnik.com. [A Librarian's Open Shelf] Reference
The material, based on a memoir by author Franz Lidz, could easily have turned insufferably whimsical. From Wordnik.com. [This Boy's Oddball Life] Reference
I shall never witness another wedding as long as I live -- it is too insufferably sad a contemplation. From Wordnik.com. [Letters of a Dakota Divorcee] Reference
The June wind, heavy with the waters of the Ganges which flows past Cawnpore, made the night insufferably hot. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of Missionary Heroes] Reference
Some of the glasnost movies were insufferably self-indulgent, but that's the inevitable downside of the new freedom. From Wordnik.com. [David Lynch's New Peak] Reference
The Siege was growing warm, insufferably warm, and the weather that nature gave us was in all conscience hot enough. From Wordnik.com. [The Siege of Kimberley] Reference
If you didn't go there, do you find Cambridge graduates insufferably smug or more confident than their "education" merits?. From Wordnik.com. [Is Cambridge the best university in the world?] Reference
These are still unpaved, and consequently in wet weather, in some places, impassable, and in dry weather insufferably dusty. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 340, February, 1844] Reference
Veterans still often face insufferably long waits for treatment and steep bureaucratic hurdles when filing disability claims. From Wordnik.com. [PTSD: New War on An Old Foe] Reference
The tube quarters had grown insufferably hot during the long blast, but the main tube-room was blistering as Ben led the men into it. From Wordnik.com. [Badge of Infamy] Reference
"Personally, Aunt, I think he is the most arrogant, ill-mannered and insufferably conceited man I have ever met," Myra responded warmly. From Wordnik.com. [Bandit Love] Reference
Mr. Warr kept his word, but he grew insufferably self-righteous, and preached total abstinence to everybody, from Darco to the call-boy. From Wordnik.com. [Despair's Last Journey] Reference
He has grown insufferably vain, is dressed many degrees above the highest fashionable point, and looks a dissipated, hopeless blackguard. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 339, January, 1844] Reference
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