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uncontainable
adjective
Of something which cannot be contained
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We know his ecstasy was uncontainable because several other team-mates tried to contain it.
When Ramírez swept the ball into the Hungarian net in the 64th minute of their opening match of the tournament, he charged away in uncontainable ecstasy before eventually being engulfed by four equally delighted team-mates.
White may not actually be a modern-day Samson, but you certainly got the sense that those uncontainable curls and flamboyant attitude captured something fundamental about his exuberant, go-big-or-go-home attitude on the slopes.
What this means for law enforcement, Messrs Kelling and Wilson prescribed, is that when police officers keep streets orderly, and punish even small signs of misbehaviour with a warning or an arrest, people will behave in a more orderly way.When the "broken windows" theory was first published, urban crime was a seemingly uncontainable problem in America and around the world.
Such is the antipathy that plans for a revised government programme were first delayed, then shelved, for fear of uncontainable hostility between the two sides.
Best known for his ever-popular Discworld series, Pratchett's passion for the written word proved almost uncontainable.
The dash for the line was uncontainable as Glenn Maxwell played pretty much as he pleased and Steve Finn's hat-trick with the last three balls, while giving him five wickets, was little more than a curiosity.
Yemen has endured many wars that the rest of the world has ignored, but this one may well prove uncontainable.
"Faced with the withdrawal of what has been by far their richest and most reliable source of publicity, prizes may after so many years of uncontainable expansion at last show some signs of fatigue".
Williams's uncontainable singularity operated in multiple registers.
Throughout the room, people were tilting and shimmying in what seemed to be sudden seizures or attacks of uncontainable emotion.
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