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redoubtable

/ri-dou-tuh-buhl/US // rɪˈdaʊ tə bəl //UK // (rɪˈdaʊtəbəl) //

胆大包天,胆大妄为,毋庸置疑,可敬的

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : that is to be feared; formidable.
    • : commanding or evoking respect, reverence, or the like.

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Examples

  • Even the intelligence operations of the redoubtable New York City Police Department are under fire.

  • In the 1990s, progressive politicians led by the redoubtable Al Gore, viewed the “digital divide” as a dire national crisis.

  • And what about his replacement, the redoubtable Rosa Otunbayeva, a former foreign minister and ambassador to the U.S.?

  • Laurence de Cinq-Cygne struggled valiantly against a cunning and redoubtable police-agency, the soul of which was Corentin.

  • Each sect has endeavored to make its God a monarch the most redoubtable, the greatest, the most despotic, and the most selfish.

  • The clergy, arrived at this elevation of power and grandeur, became redoubtable even to monarchs.

  • Not one of them, however, was able to throw a spear upwards, so I scored over even the most redoubtable chiefs.

  • His wife soon joined him, taking with her the redoubtable rag-baby, which had afforded us so much food for gossip and conjecture.