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unspeakable

adjective

NAmE//ʌnˈspikəbl//

(literary) (usually disapproving)

that cannot be described in words, usually because it is so bad synonym indescribable unspeakable suffering I hate to think of all the vile, unspeakable things he did.

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NAmE//ʌnˈspikəbli//

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