Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not malleable; not capable of being extended by rolling or hammering, as a metal; hence, not capable of being shaped by outside influence; unyielding.
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- adjective Not
malleable .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective difficult or impossible to shape or work
Etymologies
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Examples
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But Ray Cruz, a gunnery sergeant in the United States Marine Corps, was one of those rare men with a personality of hard metal—unmalleable, impenetrable, unstoppable.
Dead Zero Stephen Hunter 2010
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But Ray Cruz, a gunnery sergeant in the United States Marine Corps, was one of those rare men with a personality of hard metal—unmalleable, impenetrable, unstoppable.
Dead Zero Stephen Hunter 2010
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But Tom, as always, wanted to win; it was a part of his unmalleable personality, the least pleasant thing about him, the way he got fixed on something and all life ceased to exist except that issue.
A Bob Lee Swagger eBook Boxed Set Stephen Hunter 2009
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It needs to be smolten and poured and once set, is pretty much unmalleable?
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But Tom, as always, wanted to win; it was a part of his unmalleable personality, the least pleasant thing about him, the way he got fixed on something and all life ceased to exist except that issue.
A Bob Lee Swagger eBook Boxed Set Stephen Hunter 2009
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But Tom, as always, wanted to win; it was a part of his unmalleable personality, the least pleasant thing about him, the way he got fixed on something and all life ceased to exist except that issue.
A Bob Lee Swagger eBook Boxed Set Stephen Hunter 2009
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I have, indeed, some idea that Mr. Herries has already discovered that I am made of different and more unmalleable metal than he had at first believed.
Redgauntlet 2008
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Chouake bemoaned just one Senator as being unmalleable - Virginia Senator Jim Webb - though they successfully procured 491 meetings with other members of Congress during the campaign.
Jewish-American PAC Boasts of Instigating War With Iran 2008
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Who can bear sorrow without such change, till age has fixed the lines of the face, or till care has made them hard and unmalleable?
He Knew He Was Right 2004
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When she opened the door she saw him as something fixed and Godlike as he had always been, as older people are to younger, rigid and unmalleable.
Tender is the Night 2003
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