Used with adjective complement

• remain: Although the word remains unspeakable, the Western intelligentsia, conservatives and liberals alike, boldly echo the preferred euphemism, " civilization " .

Adjective complement with noun phrase

• do: There was even a mermaid doing something unspeakable with a fish finger!

• have: Why do I have joy unspeakable and full of glory?

Modifies a noun

• atrocity: How did such a highly cultured people come to commit the unspeakable atrocities of the Third Reich?

• cruelty: Rape, pillage, burning of homes, unspeakable cruelty to children, to women, to old people.

• horror: The unspeakable horror which you have endured will, in time, be merely a bad memory.

• joy: An unspeakable joy filled my heart on the long homeward journey.

• tragedy: To many of you here, you have indeed been brought up in the very shadow of that unspeakable tragedy.

• evil: Upon all which intrusions many unspeakable evils did follow.

Modifying Another Word

• so: But lying in wait is horror so unspeakable it will change them forever!

• almost: A week from now these men on both sides will be doing almost unspeakable things in order to kill each other.

• otherwise: At times, this reflection may provide messages perhaps otherwise unspeakable.

Preposition: in

• pursuit: Wilde is often quoted on the subject: " the unspeakable in pursuit of the inedible " .