All 3 Uses of
irrepressible
in
Far from the Madding Crowd
- "Heh-heh-heh!" laughed the married man with a hideous effort of appreciation, for he was as irrepressibly good-humoured under ghastly snubs as a parliamentary candidate on the hustings.†
Chpt 10-12 *
- "What fun it would be to send it to the stupid old Boldwood, and how he would wonder!" said the irrepressible Liddy, lifting her eyebrows, and indulging in an awful mirth on the verge of fear as she thought of the moral and social magnitude of the man contemplated.†
Chpt 13-15
- Bathsheba moved on to hide the irrepressible dimplings of merriment.†
Chpt 25-27
Definition:
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(irrepressible) impossible to repress or control