<adj.all> indefinable yearnings indescribable beauty ineffable ecstasy inexpressible anguish unspeakable happiness unutterable contempt a thing of untellable splendor
exceptionally bad or displeasing
<adj.all> atrocious taste abominable workmanship an awful voice dreadful manners a painful performance terrible handwriting an unspeakable odor came sweeping into the room
too sacred to be uttered
<adj.all> the ineffable name of the Deity
Unspeakable \Un*speak"a*ble\, a. [Pref. un- not + speakable.] Not speakable; incapable of being uttered or adequately described; inexpressible; unutterable; ineffable; as, unspeakable grief or rage. -- {Un*speak"a*bly}, adv.
Ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory. --1 Pet. i. 8.
But there also is a general reluctance to drop the belief, so expertly nurtured by the terrorists, that the abductors are merely desperate victims of unspeakable injustices acting spontaneously and autonomously to attract attention to their plight.
Scotto "caused unspeakable grief to the victim's family and friends, who loved her dearly.
That is to say that the division of Germany was somehow visited by the Almighty upon the Germans for their unspeakable crimes toward the Jews, and that that division is a symbol of divine wrath.
As Europeans commemorated the beginning of World War II Friday, Chancellor Helmut Kohl of West Germany expressed sorrow and regret for the "unspeakable suffering" caused by the Nazis.
U.S. clergy decried the murder of six Jesuit priests in El Salvador as an unspeakable atrocity, with the National Council of Churches urging Congress to halt delivery of military aid to El Salvador.
The perception is, of course, that such a civil people, such a staunch ally, could never engage in such unspeakable acts.
The state includes everything from opulent and middle-class suburbs to areas such as Chalco and Nezahualcoyotl where millions of rural newcomers live in unspeakable squalor without water or electricity.
He has been terrorizing the population, his soldiers committing unspeakable crimes against innocent Kuwaitis.
For Raymond Buckey, a jury deadlock marked the end of a seven-year ordeal _ five years of which he spent in jail convicted of nothing, but charged with the unspeakable crime of child molestation.