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as in unbearable
more than can be put up with
the insupportable arrogance of that jerk is more than anyone should have to bear
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as in unacceptable
too bad to be excused or justified
the organization's racist views have been denounced as morally insupportable
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Recent Examples of insupportable
Conservatives and Republicans in Congress continue to claim that the cost of Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid benefits is an insupportable burden on America, so benefits need to be cut, though President-elect Donald Trump has vowed to preserve entitlements like Social Security and Medicare.
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Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 7 Jan. 2025
There are people of goodwill who think the way out of this insupportable situation lies in the fight for equal democratic rights in a single state for everyone living in the territory between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea.
—Michelle Goldberg, The Mercury News, 14 Mar. 2024
There is no consensus on this in today’s housing discourse, and if anything, the discussion is leaning toward trying to make housing an entitlement, something completely insupportable and undesirable.
—Roger Valdez, Forbes, 5 May 2023
The justification for this decision was increasingly insupportable as the 2010s progressed and private launch companies such as SpaceX proved far more efficient than the government.
—Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 10 Jan. 2023
Some of those women will face insupportable life options and some will die because of Friday’s decision.
—Yvonne Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 24 June 2022
For the English to transplant themselves around the world and rule over others was a natural right, but for a darker-skinned colonial to presume to do the reverse was insupportable.
—Fara Dabhoiwala, The New York Review of Books, 1 July 2021
But, in the wake of #MeToo, Time’s Up and Rudin’s defenestration, those narratives are looking increasingly insupportable as generational attitudes shift regarding power, accountability and workplace culture.
—Washington Post, 18 Apr. 2021
Recent Examples of Synonyms for insupportable
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For reasons that are quite possibly too unbearable to contemplate, a large group of American voters was not repulsed by such slander—they were actually aroused by it—and our politics have not been the same.—
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The 2025-26 cycle, in its early stages, has also mobilized students, laborers, women, and ethnic minorities, suggesting the potential for broader mobilization amid unbearable economic conditions.—
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To make large profits from parking fees to make up for his terrible management of tax dollars and his expensive real estate errors should be unacceptable.—
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In just 24 hours, the president unveiled three massive state interventions into different markets that might’ve once looked—and sounded—like unacceptable levels of socialist dirigisme for a Republican to champion.—
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The heinous, appalling and unjustifiable massacre of October 7 followed decades of violence.—
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Other comedians have pointed to the inconsistency of balking at performing in Saudi Arabia when other governments around the world also sponsor morally unjustifiable actions.—
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This was an act of naked and indefensible aggression.—
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In contrast, sidelining patients who face disparities is clinically reckless and ethically indefensible.—
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More to the point: Doing nothing would be unpardonable.—
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If Sam is wrong, his journalistic sin is unpardonable.—
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De Laurentiis took all the chaos in stride and was the expert judge for the cooking portion of the outrageous lineup of competitions.—
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The lawsuit also alleges WSU was liable for claims of outrageous conduct and other forms of negligence.—
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My behavior at last night's Academy Awards was unacceptable and inexcusable.—
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The failure to see this coming was an inexcusable Democratic strategic catastrophe.—
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Except, apparently, among the Hoosiers who play football as if not playing football hard would be an unforgivable sin.—
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The incomplete arm stripes are unforgivable.—
Cite this Entry
“Insupportable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/insupportable. Accessed 12 Jan. 2026.
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