Dictionary entry

Untouchable

Pronunciation: /ʌnˈtʌtʃəb(ə)l/

Pronunciation

/ʌnˈtʌtʃəb(ə)l/

Myanmar Meaning

ထိတွေ့၍ မရနိုင်သော။ ထိလျှင် ဇာတ်ပျက်စေသည့် ဟိန္ဒူ မိရိုးဖလာ အဖွဲ့ဝင်။

Definition

untouchable /ʌn'tʌtʃǝbl / adj ၁။ မထိႏိုင္ေသာ၊ မခ်ဳိးႏိုင္ေသာ (စံခ်ိန္)။ an untouchable world record ❍ As long as he stays in South America he is untouchable by the British authorities. ၂။ အနိမ့္ဆံုး (ဟိႏၵဴဇာတ္၊ ဟာရီဂ်န္ ဇာတ္)။ n ဟာရီဂ်န္။

Examples

  1. ‘They were arrogant enough to think they were untouchable
  2. but they have been arrested.’
  3. ‘Police were today still hunting the weapon used to kill the 6ft
  4. 20-stone criminal
  5. who boasted in a TV documentary that he was untouchable.’
  6. ‘It was like reaching back in time and touching the untouchable
  7. the unknowable.’
  8. ‘If marriage is invincible
  9. indelibly written on the human heart
  10. untouchable or only slightly touched by culture
  11. where do all these fatherless families come from?’
  12. ‘Protected by his alleged status as a police informer
  13. and until recently by two bodyguards
  14. he has become a Scottish Don Corleone
  15. the feared head of an untouchable empire.’
  16. ‘‘It was kind of a wake-up call that we're not untouchable
  17. ’ said Logan
  18. who lives in the District.’
  19. ‘We all know that youths are untouchable
  20. that we're not allowed to defend ourselves and that authority is ridiculed.’
  21. ‘The health service is very politicised in this country which makes it almost untouchable.’
  22. ‘From his days as a small-time fence selling stolen goods from Boston's second-hand shop in Leith to the years running guns and stolen vehicles up the coast of east Africa
  23. it appeared that he was untouchable.’
  24. ‘In the streets
  25. they are almost untouchable
  26. but their property is not.’
  27. ‘The order should show that no one is untouchable.’
  28. ‘Indeed
  29. the citizenry's incentive to finger such bad guys isn't particularly strong when the word on the street is that the these people are untouchable.’
  30. ‘The outcome was ‘diversity training’
  31. which made self-designated victim groups such as women
  32. gays or travellers virtually untouchable.’
  33. ‘The life that can never be recreated is the invisible
  34. untouchable inner one
  35. which cannot be reproduced even by the most psychoanalytical detective.’
  36. ‘They are untouchable - nobody is prepared to go to court because they are too intimidated.’
  37. ‘They think they are untouchable because excuses are made for their appalling behaviour.’
  38. ‘If the government really wanted to restore the public trust they should go after execs like those at Adelphia and Enron that betray the public trust by acting like they are above the law
  39. that corporate crime is untouchable.’
  40. ‘It looked ethereal
  41. almost untouchable
  42. and I fingered the silk
  43. let it run between my fingers like water
  44. then folded it up with the rest of my stuff that I would need.’
  45. ‘He said: ‘Many offenders think that they are untouchable and above the law.’’
  46. ‘The trio was under the impression that they were untouchable and would beat the rap and began to transfer their assets to relatives' modern-day off-shore accounts.’