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Example sentences for "unmentionable"

Lexicographically close words:
unmeet; unmelodious; unmelted; unmelting; unmended; unmentionables; unmentioned; unmerciful; unmercifully; unmerited
  1. Still worse, he was tempted by that boon companion to give way to vice of unmentionable depravity, condemned by all the world.

  2. In his private life he descended to depths of sensuality and unmentionable and degrading vice which were unknown to them.

  3. People shudder at the very thought of such unmentionable things: but there are circles in society in which such sanctimonious shuddering is a mighty thin veil of hypocrisy.

  4. If affection cools, she is helpless to stir up the embers without unmentionable sacrifice.

  5. Nor is it necessary to mention certain unmentionable excesses such as were practiced by the degenerate Romans towards the fall of the Empire.

  6. So, when the unmentionable took place, Jane was badly left.

  7. Such sympathy as I have would certainly be with those who are attempting to bring to justice the perpetrator of such unmentionable crimes.

  8. The train attendant, who was a nervous man, began to shiver again and imagine unmentionable things.

  9. Whether Dick had by any means got a knowledge of this proceeding, or whether he only suspected some unmentionable design on her part, there is no sufficient means of determining.

  10. Her answer: You have heard unmentionable things about me.

  11. The Prime Minister did not forbid even unmentionable jokes.

  12. But his ache was there all the time, feeding on its secrecy and loneliness, unmentionable feeling that it was.

  13. They were full of a cold and deliberate cruelty and, worse even than this, such a hideous knowledge of unmentionable crime was there!

  14. There are a great many other unmentionable things on which Dens, in his fourth, fifth, and seventh volumes, requires the confessor to ask from his penitent, which I omit.

  15. He knew, by confession, that a girl in the vicinity was given to an unmentionable abomination, to which Joseph was also addicted.

  16. The mighty new King-God of the Unmentionable One was about to eat up all the enemies of the land.

  17. Bakahenzie, or even Mungongo, would cheerfully sacrifice him if either imagined that the damned Unmentionable One desired it, at the suppositious bidding of something which was nothing.

  18. Then had she heard the drums announcing the return of the Unmentionable One, and aware that Moonspirit had gone into the forest to seek Him, had guessed that he was triumphant.

  19. Let us obey, that these foul spirits may pass and the Unmentionable One return unto his children!

  20. Eyes-in-the-hands is a more powerful god than the Unmentionable One, for has he not eaten him up?

  21. The Unmentionable One had returned, a miracle!

  22. Dormant awe for the Unmentionable One was awakened in every one of them.

  23. O my brethren, would ye that we seek the voice of the Unmentionable One?

  24. Jim inherited a few odd millions from his father, and killed himself spending them in unmentionable ways.

  25. I am an instigator of degrading immorality and unmentionable crimes.

  26. His "Album Graecum" is best left untranslated, and his "Zebethum Occidentale" is still more transcendentally unmentionable except in a strange dialect.

  27. One or two other prescriptions, of the many unmentionable ones which disgraced the pharmacopoeia of the seventeenth century, are to be found, but only in very rare instances, in the faded characters of the manuscript.

  28. From the unmentionable act they were deterred by aesthetical repulsion and fear of the law.

  29. Starting with the vulgar error that all sexual inversion implies the unmentionable act of coition (for which, by the way, he is severely rebuked by Krafft-Ebing, Psy.

  30. Religion adopted this view, and, through the legend of Sodom and Gomorrah, taught that God was ready to punish whole nations with violent destruction if they practised the "unmentionable vice.

  31. People assume that Urnings seek their pleasure only or mainly in an act of unmentionable indecency.

  32. Jake considered his unmentionable cigar a few minutes, then rose and mumbled: "Goin' out to get some more cigars.

  33. Polly called her a once unmentionable name that was coming into fashionable use after a long exile.

  34. There is not a sentence in this long and witty composition, read before the Accademia delle Virtu, which does not contain a grossly obscene allusion, scarcely a paragraph which does not refer to an unmentionable vice.

  35. They speak of things unmentionable with a crudity that makes one shudder, and abuse each other in sarcasms borrowed from the rhetoric of the streets.

  36. Why the unmentionable mischief do you waste your energies, singing like that at a rehearsal?

  37. Where the unmentionable mischief did you come from?

  38. It staggers down the streets, blasphemes with oaths that can be heard, wallows in vice unmentionable by modest lips.

  39. To this unmentionable Duke of Mecklenburg she has left one Daughter, a Princess Elizabeth-Catherine, who will be called Princess ANNE, one day: whose fortunes in the world may turn out to be tragical.

  40. Here too is our poor unmentionable Duke of Mecklenburg: poor soul, he has left his quarrels with the Ritterschaft for a week or two, and is here breathing the air of the Elbe Heaths.

  41. Ptolemy had not exerted himself for his release, and he had suffered unmentionable indignities.

  42. In his oration for Sextius he scoffed at Gabinius's pomatum and curled hair, and taunted him with unmentionable sins; but he specially entertained himself with his description of Piso: "For Piso!

  43. Suddenly a great, monstrous, misbegotten and unmentionable oath rolled from Mr. Stenner's tongue like a cannon shot hurled along an uneven floor!


  44. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "unmentionable" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    abject; abominable; arrant; atrocious; base; beggarly; cheesy; contemptible; crummy; debased; depraved; despicable; dirty; disgusting; execrable; flagrant; foul; fulsome; grave; gross; heinous; incommunicable; indefinable; indescribable; ineffable; inexpressible; little; low; mean; measly; miserable; monstrous; nameless; nefarious; obnoxious; odious; paltry; petty; poky; poor; profane; rank; reptilian; scabby; scandalous; scrubby; scurvy; shabby; shoddy; small; squalid; taboo; unmentionable; unspeakable; unutterable; vile; wretched