How to Use unmentionable in a Sentence

unmentionable

adjective
Definition of unmentionablenext
Synonyms for unmentionablenext
  • There are certain topics that are considered to be unmentionable.
  • That the rest of pop—not to mention the rest of hip-hop—remains of an unmentionable tier, except maybe for Bob Dylan, who won a special citation from the Pulitzers in 2008.
    — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 17 Apr. 2018
  • Under Trump, climate change and global warming have become almost unmentionable, even to the point of denial, and Pompeo used neither term in his speech.
    — Neil Shea, National Geographic, 8 May 2019
  • But that feeling of yearning and loss cannot erase family histories of unmentionable crimes.
    — Michael Gorra, Star Tribune, 28 Aug. 2020
  • Essentially, that’s telling the basketball gods to go do unmentionable things to themselves.
    — Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 23 Feb. 2021
  • Then, if a feet-first entry is inevitable, the most important piece of advice, for reasons both unmentionable and easily understood, is to clench your butt.
    — Dan Koeppel, Popular Mechanics, 14 Feb. 2021
  • As swearing functions as a complex signal, subtle enough either to amuse or to offend, these words vary according to what a culture deems unmentionable.
    — The Economist, 25 Jan. 2018
  • Music aside, 2020 brought on a suffering of unmentionable cruelties that shattered my heart.
    — George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Mar. 2021
  • Many members of the underground faded from memory or became unmentionable, having wasted away in colonial prison cells or been killed in anti-colonial infighting.
    — Thomas Meaney, The New Yorker, 10 May 2021
  • Suffice it to say that the movie’s richness of drama and texture enables the thematic essence and emotional power of its unmentionable twists to run through the film in its entirety, energizing even less surprising but no less affecting details.
    — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 27 Dec. 2021
  • Those small kindnesses were given in exchange for women staying in a kind of straightjacket of femininity—female pleasure was unmentionable, queerness was forbidden, and there was almost no recourse for rape and harassment.
    — Jenny Singer, Glamour, 3 May 2021
  • Everything was unmentionable but nothing was unimaginable.
    — Alissa Wilkinson, Vox, 8 Aug. 2019
  • Like that other unmentionable, death, money has, over the past generation, been increasingly sanitized and technologized, abstracted from the complex and often messy realities of interpersonal relationships.
    — Daniel Mendelsohn, Town & Country, 4 Nov. 2016
  • There are certain topics that are considered to be unmentionable.
  • That the rest of pop—not to mention the rest of hip-hop—remains of an unmentionable tier, except maybe for Bob Dylan, who won a special citation from the Pulitzers in 2008.
    — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 17 Apr. 2018
  • Under Trump, climate change and global warming have become almost unmentionable, even to the point of denial, and Pompeo used neither term in his speech.
    — Neil Shea, National Geographic, 8 May 2019
  • But that feeling of yearning and loss cannot erase family histories of unmentionable crimes.
    — Michael Gorra, Star Tribune, 28 Aug. 2020
  • Essentially, that’s telling the basketball gods to go do unmentionable things to themselves.
    — Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 23 Feb. 2021
  • Then, if a feet-first entry is inevitable, the most important piece of advice, for reasons both unmentionable and easily understood, is to clench your butt.
    — Dan Koeppel, Popular Mechanics, 14 Feb. 2021
  • As swearing functions as a complex signal, subtle enough either to amuse or to offend, these words vary according to what a culture deems unmentionable.
    — The Economist, 25 Jan. 2018
  • Music aside, 2020 brought on a suffering of unmentionable cruelties that shattered my heart.
    — George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Mar. 2021
  • Many members of the underground faded from memory or became unmentionable, having wasted away in colonial prison cells or been killed in anti-colonial infighting.
    — Thomas Meaney, The New Yorker, 10 May 2021
  • Suffice it to say that the movie’s richness of drama and texture enables the thematic essence and emotional power of its unmentionable twists to run through the film in its entirety, energizing even less surprising but no less affecting details.
    — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 27 Dec. 2021
  • Those small kindnesses were given in exchange for women staying in a kind of straightjacket of femininity—female pleasure was unmentionable, queerness was forbidden, and there was almost no recourse for rape and harassment.
    — Jenny Singer, Glamour, 3 May 2021
  • Everything was unmentionable but nothing was unimaginable.
    — Alissa Wilkinson, Vox, 8 Aug. 2019
  • Like that other unmentionable, death, money has, over the past generation, been increasingly sanitized and technologized, abstracted from the complex and often messy realities of interpersonal relationships.
    — Daniel Mendelsohn, Town & Country, 4 Nov. 2016

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