insufferably

English

Etymology

From insufferable +‎ -ly.

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Adverb

insufferably (comparative more insufferably, superlative most insufferably)

1. In an insufferable manner.
   • 2000 February 24, “Tony Blair takes his time”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:

     He has good cards to play on making Brussels better and slimming the continent's heavyweight welfare states. Both can, not implausibly, be given a New Labourish colouring, though Mr Blair's lectures can sound insufferably Pecksniffian.

References

• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “insufferably”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.