Sentence examples for unusable words from inspiring English sources
From "Unusable Words," by Brad Leithauser.
It enabled him quickly to generate 35,000 unusable words.
Well, profanity shocks nobody anymore, and the writer seeking unusable words naturally turns to the dictionary's dimmest nooks and crannies.
"Incomplex" belongs to my favorite subgroup of unusable words, those that seem inherently, structurally maladapted for the meaning they would convey.
Which is to say, it's a mostly unusable word.
Long ago, slogging through some now-forgotten academic essay, I encountered "incomplex" and joyously realized I'd stumbled upon another unusable word.
"Awesome" strikes me as an all but unusable word, except in irony, now that we live in a world in which you might plausibly hear an oatmeal cookie or a shoelace described as awesome.
Another is a chance to use an otherwise unusable German word.
Also on the podcast, why the poet Brad Leithauser finds some words unusable.
He claimed that AT&T had reduced the Internet transfer speeds of his iPhone to the point where it was so slow that it was unusable — in other words, severely limiting his "unlimited" data plan.
Words become unusable for all sorts of reasons.
