Meanings
- not comparableSo as to preclude kissing.
In any case, the unkissably shrewish Kate seems to be offering a bit of conspiratorial advice, "Slip around [the back]," as if to get away with something.
2002, Morton Levitt, Joyce and the Joyceans, page 1732 more examples
Just as he was ready to spring all two hundred pounds of him on the helpless lizard, his attention was distracted by a rather large snake of the unkissably poisonous variety.
1982, Craig Strete, Dreams That Burn in the Night, page 52Traquair watched Miss Trenton walk slowly back up the path to the house, where he saw Miss Grant standing with her hands covering her mouth, which he imagined was in its usual, unkissably open pose.
2003, Louis Edwards, Oscar Wilde Discovers America, page 95
Origin
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