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词汇 unsupportable
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Definition of unsupportable in English:

unsupportable

adjectiveʌnsəˈpɔːtəb(ə)lˌənsəˈpɔrdəb(ə)l
  • another term for insupportable
    Example sentencesExamples
    • I know that he was voted down and I believe he was voted down for good reason, not merely because his views were ‘out of the mainstream’ but that they were dangerous to the cause of liberty and wholly unsupportable.
    • The dominant media simply can't monopolize discourse as they could only a few years ago, and when they take positions that are unsupportable, they get hammered.
    • Each one was found to be completely unsupportable.
    • In recent years economic realities have led to the agricultural basis for the estate dwindling, so costs for maintaining the properties on the estate are becoming increasingly unsupportable.
    • The supreme editor of a news organization can't expect to make unsupportable inflammatory statements and maintain the respect of his truth-seeking troops at the same time.
    • It says the decision to go to war was based on, quote, ‘unreasonable and largely unsupportable intelligence.’
    • However, we are all of us imperfect beings, and punishing the individual for life-style imperfections seems to me to be unsupportable in a civilized society.
    • We've always had confidence in Edwin - it was the action that was unsupportable.
    • A grand idea, to be sure, but one that's unsupportable.
    • The human cost of bio-fuels in terms of the use of arable land for the production of the sugarcane, oats, sunflower seeds and so on for producing those fuels would be unsupportable.
    • The political differences from then are obvious: in 1977 the Labour government was well on its way to becoming a miserable, unsupportable spectacle with 20 long years in the wilderness.
    • The book offers 752 pages of text, good color plates, unsupportable subjective opinions on just about every page, and a desire to compress everything into a narrative or conceptual scheme of some kind or another.
    • A right to self-determination exercised in a way that actually perpetuates welfare dependency, rather than independent self-sufficiency, will eventually come to be seen as unsupportable by the vast majority of citizens.
    • At the same time, after years of ecstatic expansion, traditional information technology departments found themselves entangled in an unsupportable jumble of disparate and antagonistic systems.
    • His readers make my point by reading his unsupportable claim that leftists are somehow free of vitriol or rancor, then writing in and calling his detractors every name their imaginations can handle.
    • Of 15,000 villages in the country, 5,000 were destroyed outright or made economically unsupportable by destruction of all economic resources such as fields, wells or roads.
    • The rest of the article discusses vague notions of a New England conspiracy to eradicate all opposition and makes unsupportable claims that the South is in a third reconstruction.
    • As we learn more and more about our own animal weaknesses and the way the technologies of persuasion can exploit them, it can seem as if our vaunted autonomy is an unsupportable myth.
    • As I've argued, the apparent nobility of this position conceals some lazy and unsupportable assumptions.
    • Although the State governments have made a more serious taxation effort than the Centre through the 1990s, their fiscal situation continues to be under strain, placing an unsupportable strain upon even essential welfare sectors.

Derivatives

  • unsupportably

  • adverb
    • This approach often finds us pitted between those opposed to regulation in any form and those arguing for what we would consider to be unsupportably onerous restrictions.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Often judges rule against my clients; and of those adverse rulings, sometimes the decision is just unsupportably wrong.
      • You being you would probably not see what an asinine and unsupportably stupid comment you have made.
      • I know that a contributive factor was occasioned by a King who, fighting an unpopular and protracted war, needed to raise revenue for his armies and was prepared to do the most unsupportably vile things to get it.
      • In support of the motion to dismiss, the secretary cites to a number of cases in which attorneys who had represented applicants before the secretary and who had asked the secretary to award attorney's fees to them for this representation unsuccessfully attempted to have the courts overturn what the attorneys’ believed were unsupportably low awards.

Definition of unsupportable in US English:

unsupportable

adjectiveˌənsəˈpôrdəb(ə)lˌənsəˈpɔrdəb(ə)l
  • another term for insupportable
    Example sentencesExamples
    • His readers make my point by reading his unsupportable claim that leftists are somehow free of vitriol or rancor, then writing in and calling his detractors every name their imaginations can handle.
    • As we learn more and more about our own animal weaknesses and the way the technologies of persuasion can exploit them, it can seem as if our vaunted autonomy is an unsupportable myth.
    • At the same time, after years of ecstatic expansion, traditional information technology departments found themselves entangled in an unsupportable jumble of disparate and antagonistic systems.
    • A grand idea, to be sure, but one that's unsupportable.
    • Each one was found to be completely unsupportable.
    • A right to self-determination exercised in a way that actually perpetuates welfare dependency, rather than independent self-sufficiency, will eventually come to be seen as unsupportable by the vast majority of citizens.
    • The dominant media simply can't monopolize discourse as they could only a few years ago, and when they take positions that are unsupportable, they get hammered.
    • The supreme editor of a news organization can't expect to make unsupportable inflammatory statements and maintain the respect of his truth-seeking troops at the same time.
    • We've always had confidence in Edwin - it was the action that was unsupportable.
    • However, we are all of us imperfect beings, and punishing the individual for life-style imperfections seems to me to be unsupportable in a civilized society.
    • The political differences from then are obvious: in 1977 the Labour government was well on its way to becoming a miserable, unsupportable spectacle with 20 long years in the wilderness.
    • I know that he was voted down and I believe he was voted down for good reason, not merely because his views were ‘out of the mainstream’ but that they were dangerous to the cause of liberty and wholly unsupportable.
    • It says the decision to go to war was based on, quote, ‘unreasonable and largely unsupportable intelligence.’
    • In recent years economic realities have led to the agricultural basis for the estate dwindling, so costs for maintaining the properties on the estate are becoming increasingly unsupportable.
    • The human cost of bio-fuels in terms of the use of arable land for the production of the sugarcane, oats, sunflower seeds and so on for producing those fuels would be unsupportable.
    • As I've argued, the apparent nobility of this position conceals some lazy and unsupportable assumptions.
    • Although the State governments have made a more serious taxation effort than the Centre through the 1990s, their fiscal situation continues to be under strain, placing an unsupportable strain upon even essential welfare sectors.
    • The rest of the article discusses vague notions of a New England conspiracy to eradicate all opposition and makes unsupportable claims that the South is in a third reconstruction.
    • Of 15,000 villages in the country, 5,000 were destroyed outright or made economically unsupportable by destruction of all economic resources such as fields, wells or roads.
    • The book offers 752 pages of text, good color plates, unsupportable subjective opinions on just about every page, and a desire to compress everything into a narrative or conceptual scheme of some kind or another.
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