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Definition of "ineffably" [in•ef•fa•bly]

  • Intensifies an adjective to mean indescribably. (adverb)
  • Intensifies an adjective to mean unmentionably. (adverb)

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Use "ineffably" in a sentence
  • "Told in ineffably understated British style -- so dryly that tone is more a notion than a fact -- you could easily think of it as a story told by laboratory animals, who are aware of their fate as experimental subjects and are resigned to it."
  • "I called my ineffably scummy Representative Tim Johnson (DC office) and left a message with an intern who managed to sound both terminally bored and utterly hostile once I said that I wanted Johnson to vote for the Senate bill."
  • "From that box tucked under the text of a movie review, the conception of arts coverage as a kind of ineffably digestible, data-driven form of service journalism steadily expanded within the pages of"
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