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inflexible
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  • 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.
  • "Yes," he said quietly," nine and a half inches…. inflexible… rosewood…. and containing…."  (source)
    inflexible = not easily bent
  • [regarding attendance at The Super Suicide Society of the Summer Session club meetings] As we drifted on through the summer, with this one inflexible appointment every day—classes could be cut, meals missed, chapel skipped—I noticed something about Finny's own mind, which was such an opposite from mine. ... I noticed that he did abide by certain rules, which he seemed to cast in the form of Commandments.  (source)
    inflexible = not bendable or adaptable
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  • "Since I survived that year," he always said, "I shall survive anything." He put it down to his inflexible will.  (source)
    inflexible = unbending (very strong)
  • They teach us to abide by our spontaneous impression with good-humored inflexibility then most when the whole cry of voices is on the other side.  (source)
    inflexibility = refusal to change
  • Her figure was elegant, and she walked well; but Darcy, at whom it was all aimed, was still inflexibly studious.  (source)
    inflexibly = unbendingly
  • 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.  (source)
    inflexible = rigid (unbending; not willing to make concessions)
  • Her inflexibility was just a bluff.†  (source)
  • When two ships are on a collision course, and the men at the wheel inflexibly hold to that course, there is going to be a collision.†  (source)
    inflexibly = in a manner that is not bendable or adaptable
  • The process by which the bone hardens, becomes inflexible.  (source)
    inflexible = not bendable or adaptable
  • What Huck rejects is not religion but an attitude of self-righteousness and inflexibility.†  (source)
  • Mr. Phillips might not be a very good teacher; but a pupil so inflexibly determined on learning as Anne was could hardly escape making progress under any kind of teacher.†  (source)
    inflexibly = in a manner that is not bendable or adaptable
  • "It's a good story if you think about it," he said. "The boy's father is just trying to make him stronger. Inflexible." "But you have to learn to bend a little," said Clary.... "Or you'll break." "Not if you're strong enough," said Jace firmly.  (source)
    Inflexible = unbending (not willing to compromise or make concessions)
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