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.

Etymologies

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un- +‎ budgeable

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Examples

  • 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

  • Marge is as straight and plumb and as unbudgeable as a bar on a cell door.

    Shes not bad, shes just drawn that way, doh! 2009

  • Marge is as straight and plumb and as unbudgeable as a bar on a cell door.

    Lance Mannion: 2009

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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.

    Gordon Brown, Charlie Whelan and Me 2009

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