as in unbearable
more than can be put up with
an insufferable bore whose only topic of conversation is himself
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Recent Examples of insufferable
The Rock could show up any week now to inflict further punishment on Rhodes and make his life insufferable.
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Faisal Kutty, Newsweek, 11 Mar. 2025
Not the most memorable, but Myers’s flail-laughing at his own insufferable jokes remains a pretty funny encapsulation of Musk’s self-satisfied riffing.
—Ben Rosenstock, Vulture, 9 Mar. 2025
Turns out this gang of privileged, white Georgetown students is kind of insufferable!
—Eddie Mouradian, Vulture, 24 Feb. 2025
There’s enough lawbreaking to keep Lou and Henry busy trying to work out who might have poisoned an insufferable tech bro or kidnapped a talentless aspiring actress.
—Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Feb. 2025
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Faisal Kutty, Newsweek, 11 Mar. 2025
Not the most memorable, but Myers’s flail-laughing at his own insufferable jokes remains a pretty funny encapsulation of Musk’s self-satisfied riffing.
—Ben Rosenstock, Vulture, 9 Mar. 2025
Turns out this gang of privileged, white Georgetown students is kind of insufferable!
—Eddie Mouradian, Vulture, 24 Feb. 2025
There’s enough lawbreaking to keep Lou and Henry busy trying to work out who might have poisoned an insufferable tech bro or kidnapped a talentless aspiring actress.
—Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Feb. 2025
See All Example Sentences for insufferable
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“Insufferable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/insufferable. Accessed 29 Apr. 2025.
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