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Definition of Sufferably
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sufferably
Literary usage of Sufferably
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The British Essayists by James Ferguson (1823)
"purchase an alliance to so illustrious a family- conduct from the hour of his
marriage has b sufferably tyrannical, nor has he any other rega her than what ..."
2. Confessions of an English Opium-eater: Reprinted from the First Edition by Thomas De Quincey (1885)
"... nothing well but dramatic compositions : Milton she cannot read sufferably.
People in general either read poetry without any passion at all, ..."
3. A History of the People of the United States: From the Revolution to the by John Bach McMaster (1900)
"In* sufferably slow as such a mode of conveyance would seem to an American of
this generation, it had, in 1784, but lately come in, and was hailed as a mark ..."
4. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1800)
"The division of the action into two plays renders the plot in-* sufferably tedious;
and, even with the engrafted love-intrigue, the interest flattens ..."
5. History of Friedrich II of Prussia, Called Frederick the Great by Thomas Carlyle (1862)
"... is so un- 'sufferably wearisome, or can pretend to equal in depth of 'dull
inanity, to ingenuous ..."
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