Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Not capable of being budged; inflexible or unyielding.
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- adjective That cannot be made to
budge ;immovable ,fixed .
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Examples
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Mandelson writes that Brown was "unbudgeable" over the subject.
Peter Mandelson on Brown: 'We were in a pit of debt. And we kept on digging' 2010
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Marge is as straight and plumb and as unbudgeable as a bar on a cell door.
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Marge is as straight and plumb and as unbudgeable as a bar on a cell door.
Lance Mannion: 2009
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Second, even if it were true that a principled person will on some points be unbudgeable, the question is whether those points are the right points.
Moral Particularism Dancy, Jonathan 2009
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Another line is that the person of principle will be unbudgeable; having taken a stand on an issue, he will not be moved from it.
Moral Particularism Dancy, Jonathan 2009
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Fortuna (I assume a woman because of the final 'a'), Susan Hill, Kildar (I assume from her post, a woman) and many other women here have seen Sarah Palin for what she is: charismatic, unbudgeable in her principles - which include family values - and brave.
Smoking Guns and the Morality of Parliamentary Privilege 2009
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Fortuna (I assume a woman because of the final 'a'), Susan Hill, Kildar (I assume from her post, a woman) and many other women here have seen Sarah Palin for what she is: charismatic, unbudgeable in her principles - which include family values - and brave.
Smoking Guns and the Morality of Parliamentary Privilege 2009
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First, nothing prevents a particularist from being of firm conviction case by case; an unbudgeable conviction need not be founded on principle, but simply on the nature of the case.
Moral Particularism Dancy, Jonathan 2009
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This was the Brown of old, the unbudgeable slab of granite, the obsessive numerologist casting statistics in all directions like a witchdoctor sprinkling charms to ward off evil.
PMQs of the undead 2009
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This was the Brown of old, the unbudgeable slab of granite, the obsessive numerologist casting statistics in all directions like a witchdoctor sprinkling charms to ward off evil.
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