[ adj ] used of persons or their behavior <adj.all> impossible behaviorinsufferable insolence
Insufferable \In*suf"fer*a*ble\, a. 1. Incapable of being suffered, borne, or endured; insupportable; unendurable; intolerable; as, insufferable heat, cold, or pain; insufferable wrongs. --Locke.
2. Offensive beyond endurance; detestable.
A multitude of scribblers who daily pester the world with their insufferable stuff. --Dryden.
Were it not for his quicksilver changes of pace and his finely tuned air of self-mockery, the scene would be insufferable.
This rendered the people of Kuwait homeless and afflicted them with insufferable pains.
Here, the wimp, played by Matthew Broderick, spends an evening with the eponymous widder-lady while her insufferable children taunt him, while his friends play cards and a drunken rival interlopes.
He brings an open-mouthed innocence to a character who could be insufferable but here is genuine and appealing.
The last (silent) word is mimed by the insufferable Noctambulist who has flitted on and off during the previous act.
She plans to deliver it to an insufferable boor with the words "sit on it," she said, laughing uproariously.
Without Mlle Guillem, it would be insufferable.
That is why Mr. Cosby's treacle is so popular, and why the insufferable Michael J. Fox's vehicle monopolizes audiences in that period.