indescribably

adv

indescribably

adv

Etymology From indescribable + -ly.

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In an indescribable manner.

  • The appearance of the dead was indescribably ghastly.1879, John McElroy, chapter 24, in Andersonville: A Story of Rebel Military Prisons:
  • There was something indescribably nerve-shaking and menacing in that constant mutter, which seemed to shape itself into the very syllables of the half-breed, endlessly repeated, "We will kill you if we can."1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
1 more example
  • “I felt this sense of relief that I didn’t have to lie anymore, and that I could start taking responsibility even though I felt indescribably bad.”2023 October 11, David Yaffe-Bellany, Matthew Goldstein, J. Edward Moreno, quoting Caroline Ellison, “Caroline Ellison Says She and Sam Bankman-Fried Lied for Years”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

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