Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In an inflexible manner; rigidly; inexorably.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In an inflexible manner.
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- adverb With a
firmness that resists allimportunity orpersuasion ; in aninflexible ,unyielding orimmovable manner;relentlessly .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb in an inflexible manner
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Examples
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He said the tactic posed obvious problems when used "inflexibly", and his investigation would be examining how it was applied during the G20 summit.
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He said the tactic posed obvious problems when used "inflexibly", and his investigation would be examining how it was applied during the G20 summit.
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He said the tactic posed obvious problems when used "inflexibly", and his investigation would be examining how it was applied during the G20 summit.
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In the past, people would start an apprenticeship in early teens, it would take many years (traditionally seven) then that person was inflexibly committed (both in skills and attitude) to a single craft or profession for the rest of their lives.
Charles Murray on Education, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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My only qualm with this formulation is that it might imply only that the Palestinians inflexibly seek a state within the limits of the 1949 armistice lines often wrongly termed "the 1967 borders" and that this defines their maximalism.
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Why is inflexibly sticking to your guns regarded it would seem by Tory advisors to be the more preferable political stance?
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This meant, among other things, that the Jewish population of Denmark (roughly 8,000) was now in deadly danger: the Danish government had been, up to that point, politely, respectfully, and absolutely inflexibly refusing to allow Nazi Germany to persecute its Jewish citizens.
Today is the 66th anniversary of the rescue of the Danish Jews. - Moe_Lane’s blog - RedState 2009
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My only qualm with this formulation is that it might imply only that the Palestinians inflexibly seek a state within the limits of the 1949 armistice lines often wrongly termed "the 1967 borders" and that this defines their maximalism.
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Isaac Ford was gone, but he, his son, carried on the good work at least as inflexibly if not as masterfully.
The House of Pride and Other Tales of Hawaii:The House of Pride 2010
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It's one racist tool with a nightstick being used to confirm the inflexibly entrenched suspicions of a good number of other racist tools.
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