Insufferably

adv

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Definitions

Adverb
  1. 1
    In an insufferable manner.

    "He has good cards to play on making Brussels better and slimming the continent's heavyweight welfare states. Both can, not implausibly, be given a New Labourish colouring, though Mr Blair's lectures can sound insufferably Pecksniffian."

Adverb
  1. 1
    in an extremely arrogant or conceited manner wordnet
  2. 2
    to an insufferable degree wordnet

Synonyms

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intolerablyunsufferablyunsufferably

Example

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"Martino became insufferably arrogant towards his subordinates."

Etymology

From insufferable + -ly.

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