belongs to lowest social and ritual class in India
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beyond the reach of criticism or attack or impeachment
<adj.all> for the first time criticism was directed at a hitherto untouchable target
impossible to assail
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forbidden to the touch
<adj.all> in most museums such articles are untouchable
( especially used in traditional Hindu belief of the lowest caste or castes) defiling
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not capable of being obtained
<adj.all> a rare work, today almost inaccessible timber is virtually unobtainable in the islands untouchable resources buried deep within the earth
Then I finally twigged that the Mont Blanc massif, far from being just an awe-inspiring but untouchable part of Courmayeur's scenery, was actually accessible.
Gov. Edward DiPrete bit into supposedly untouchable education funds to help seal Rhode Island's fiscal gap.
At the cavernous 207th Street subway-car repair shop, some of the workers were spending half their day playing cards or snoozing, untouchable by unionized foremen.
This essentially adds up to a form of dis-saving since the equity in people's homes was heretofore treated as untouchable.
Salinas has cracked down hard, arresting top traffickers and corrupt officials who had been untouchable for years.
The victories apparently convinced Gotti he had become the Teflon Don, untouchable by the authorities.
Quebec officials repeated that the clause is "untouchable." Conservatives contend that primary and secondary schools are too paralyzed by bureaucracy to improve themselves.
Soviets eagerly watched the daily live telecasts in which Congress deputies challenged Communist Party authority, questioned Gorbachev and other top officials, and openly criticized such previously untouchable organizations as the KGB.
Setting a national goal of reversing the trend toward a shrinking wetlands base "does not imply that individual wetlands will in every instance be untouchable." the report said.
No one in the art-loving public should be afraid of a favorite painting going on the block, said Eileen Harakal, spokeswoman for Chicago's Art Institute. "We have icons that will always be here; things that are always untouchable.
That is why Medicaid and US social security are thought of as practically untouchable.