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unspeakable

 adjective
     
un‧speak‧a‧ble
1 used for emphasizing how bad someone or something is:
an unspeakable tragedy
2 literary unspeakable feelings are so extreme that it is impossible to describe them:
unspeakable joy
—unspeakably adverb
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