Sample sentences for INFLEXIBLE

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Definition

not bendable or adaptable

in various senses, including:

not willing to compromise or make concessions — as when a boss says "Do it my way or you're fired."
not able to adjust well to different conditions — as of a schedule that cannot be changed
not easily bent without physical damage or injury — as of brittle steel or person with stiff joints

inflexible = unbending (not willing to compromise or make concessions)

inflexible = unbending (not able to adjust well to different conditions)

It is a mathematical law, inflexible and without pity.
an inflexible iron bar
The inflexible rules meant that even a child who was gaining ground, was counted as a school's failure if she was below grade level.
an inflexible law
Today's schedule is full and inflexible.
Abraham Lincoln
He was, in a word, a man of the most inflexible firmness and stone-like coolness.
Frederick Douglass -- Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
"Milo, I forbid you to fly any more combat missions," Colonel Cathcart declared in a tone of stern and inflexible authority.
Joseph Heller -- Catch-22

inflexible = uncompromising (not willing to compromise or make concessions)

I know his character; he is inflexible in any resolutions formed for his own interests.
Alexandre Dumas -- The Count of Monte Cristo

inflexible = unbending (not willing to compromise or make concessions)

Oh! don't be so proud, Estella, and so inflexible.
Charles Dickens -- Great Expectations

inflexible = unbending (unwilling to compromise or make concessions)

In Andy's view, I was self-possessed to a fault, I was way too brash and I was an inflexible contrarian, always spouting opinions.
Randy Pausch -- The Last Lecture

inflexible = rigid (unbending; not willing to make concessions)

A party of Indians—in their savage finery ... stood apart with countenances of inflexible gravity, beyond what even the Puritan aspect could attain.
Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The Scarlet Letter

inflexible = uncompromising (unbending)

We have said that Athos loved d'Artagnan like a child, and this somber and inflexible personage felt the anxiety of a parent for the young man.
Alexandre Dumas -- The Three Musketeers
But again, the inflexible, unswerving progress of Sharmak's forces coming down the escarpment after us was simply too overwhelming.
Marcus Luttrell -- Lone Survivor

inflexible = unyielding (not forced to change direction or slow down)

No Puseyite, or conservative of any school, was ever more inflexibly attached to time-honored inconveniences than Dinah.
Harriet Beecher Stowe -- Uncle Tom's Cabin
"It is linked to another process," she said, "by which the mind too, becomes inflexible."
David Almond -- Skellig

inflexible = not flexible (not adaptable)

"Yes," he said quietly," nine and a half inches.... inflexible... rosewood.... and containing...."
J.K. Rowling -- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

inflexible = not easily bent

He answered with inflexible humility, "Won't you—can't you see your way to cut off ten cents' worth?"
John Steinbeck -- The Grapes of Wrath
Her figure was elegant, and she walked well; but Darcy, at whom it was all aimed, was still inflexibly studious.
Jane Austen -- Pride and Prejudice

inflexibly = unbendingly

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