as in undesirability
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for intolerability
- undesirability
- inexpediency
- uselessness
- irrelevance
- meaninglessness
- inadequacy
- inapplicability
- pointlessness
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While some recent sales have been sluggish — Susan Gutfreund’s 12,000-square-foot duplex listed for $120 million in 2016 and finally sold for $53 million three years later, that seems more a symptom of delusional pricing than undesirability.—
Kim Velsey,
Curbed,
13 Aug. 2025
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Their book asserts without qualification that those few M.P.s who did speak against the act objected only on grounds of inexpediency and unfairness, and never on the principle of the right.—
William Hogeland,
The New Republic,
25 Jan. 2021
Noun
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Holding back tears, Marta called out the uselessness of comparing this season to last year’s championship run.—
Tamerra Griffin,
New York Times,
8 Nov. 2025
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After years of drifting toward irrelevance as rivals appeared, Nissan has taken its once-groundbreaking EV and redesigned it from the ground up, transforming the Leaf from an aging hatchback into a compact crossover with the range and tech to finally feel contemporary.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
30 Dec. 2025
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In a future workforce dominated by artificial intelligence and robotics, Musk says salaries will become nonexistent, and therefore, cash will fade into irrelevance.—
Orianna Rosa Royle,
Fortune,
15 Dec. 2025
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The meaninglessness made Kinney’s use of the phrase reach a sort of ultra-virality that has been steadily growing all year.—
Alphonse Pierre,
Pitchfork,
23 Oct. 2025
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Is this, as The Wall Street Journal recently described it, akin to if absurdist-existentialist philosopher Albert Camus had a TikTok, given his firm grasp of meaninglessness?—
Kevin Dolak,
HollywoodReporter,
16 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Anyone who drives around the Los Angeles basin understands the inadequacy of the freeway system.—
Steven Greenhut,
Oc Register,
9 Jan. 2026
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Yet fortunes have turned more recently, with on-field inadequacies slowly but surely eating into off-field resources.—
Chris Weatherspoon,
New York Times,
9 Jan. 2026
Noun
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Defendants rely on cases that, ironically, only confirm the inapplicability of the § 1252(f)(1) bar here.—
New York Times,
New York Times,
2 Dec. 2025
Noun
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Such expeditions can turn into a Buddhistic exercise in enlightened pointlessness.—
Alex Ross,
New Yorker,
24 Nov. 2025
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“Intolerability.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/intolerability. Accessed 11 Jan. 2026.
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