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Definition of "un-get-at-able" [un-get-at-able]

  • Difficult to reach or attain (adjective)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

Use "un-get-at-able" in a sentence
  • "If they burned the money, ate it, and squished it, they'd lose a lot of their audience by presenting them with an un-get-at-able existential quandary instead of engaging them in art whose presentation they might be more comfortable engaging back."
  • "Vann in particular was much in the good books of General Allenby, the Corps Commander, for his splendid work, though he was once the cause of his very nearly spoiling an immaculate pair of breeches when showing him with much glee a particularly un-get-at-able loophole plate in a very muddy trench."
  • "She lay in a most un-get-at-able position at the further end of the hold, stowed in so confined and narrow a space that it was impossible to think of fitting the parts together there."
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