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• s  defying expression or description
  unspeakable happiness
• s  exceptionally bad or displeasing
  an unspeakable odor came sweeping into the room
• s  too sacred to be uttered

• This is one of the unspeakable acts that have gone not only unpunished but unexplained.
• The unspeakable had been spoken, and the Pope himself had called the abuse "a crime.
• With the aid of Christian activists, North Koreans brave unspeakable horrors to reach safety.

• indefinable
• indescribable
• ineffable
• untellable
• unutterable
• atrocious
• abominable
• awful
• dreadful
• painful
• terrible
• unnameable

News & Articles

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• Death row diary offers a rare glimpse into a morbid world
  Not much is written in the way of obituaries for people who are put to death. They are convicted criminals; many are guilty of unspeakable cruelty.
  June 15, 2013 - CNN
• CONNECTICUT SUN: Ashley Walker attempts comeback with the Sun
  UNCASVILLE >> The unspeakable amount of frustration at being cut by four different WNBA teams did little to shake Ashley Walker’s confidence and if it accomplished anything, it only strengthened her desire to prove she could make it in the rough and tumble word of the WNBA.
  June 15, 2013 - The Middletown Press
• Inside the diary of an executed man
  Not much is written in the way of obituaries for people who are put to death. They are convicted criminals; many are guilty of unspeakable cruelty.
  June 14, 2013 - ABC 15 Phoenix

Quotes

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• President Bush in Guardian Unlimited
  I was most impressed that people in the face of horror and evil would not forsake their God. In the face of unspeakable crimes against humanity, brave souls - young and old - stood strong for what they believe,Bush said.
• Kevin Rudd in FOXNews
  In recent days we have witnessed unspeakable suffering,Rudd said at a mourning ceremony broadcast nationally.
• Gordon Brown in guardian.co.uk
  The whole country will be outraged by those unspeakable events in Sheffield and in other parts of the country and will be utterly appalled by the news of the systematic abuse of two sisters by their father over such a long period,Brown said....