unmentionable

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English

Etymology

From un- +‎ mentionable.

Adjective

unmentionable (comparative more unmentionable, superlative most unmentionable)

  1. Too embarrassing or shocking to be discussed.
    Antonym: mentionable

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Noun

unmentionable (plural unmentionables)

  1. Something not to be discussed in polite society.
    • 1983 December 10, Mary F. Miller, “Personal advertisement”, in Gay Community News, volume 11, number 21, page 19:
      I'm a lesbian female, 20 years old and my most outstanding features are my pierced unmentionable and my eyes.
    • 1995, Virginia Schroeder Burnham, William H. Hampton, Since Time Began, page 43:
      He was taught from childhood that the world does not condone homosexuality and that it is an unmentionable of decent people.
    • 2014, Andrew Hodges, Alan Turing: The Enigma, page 100:
      Here, after all, was the circle round which Forster passed the manuscript of his novel Maurice which conveyed so much about being 'an unmentionable of the Oscar Wilde sort'.

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