All 8 Uses
inflexible
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Lord Jim
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- It must have been a pretty sight, the fierce industry of these beggars toiling on a motionless ship that floated quietly in the silence of a world asleep, fighting against time for the freeing of that boat, grovelling on all-fours, standing up in despair, tugging, pushing, snarling at each other venomously, ready to kill, ready to weep, and only kept from flying at each other's throats by the fear of death that stood silent behind them like an inflexible and cold-eyed taskmaster.†
Chpt 8inflexible = not bendable or adaptable
- it made them heroic; and it made them pathetic too in their craving for trade with the inflexible death levying its toll on young and old.†
Chpt 22
- He had shown a desire, I continued inflexibly, to go out and shut the door after him...."Did I?" he interrupted in a strange access of gloom that seemed to envelop him from head to foot like the shadow of a passing cloud.†
Chpt 22 *inflexibly = in a manner that is not bendable or adaptable
- The appearance of the being that descended upon them and demanded inflexibly to be taken up to Patusan was discomposing; his insistence was alarming; his generosity more than suspicious.†
Chpt 24
- There was no appeal, as it were; he was imprisoned within the very freedom of his power, and she, though ready to make a footstool of her head for his feet, guarded her conquest inflexibly—as though he were hard to keep.†
Chpt 29
- I heard it all, listening with amazement, with awe, to the tones of her inflexible weariness.†
Chpt 37inflexible = not bendable or adaptable
- Old Tunku Allang, almost out of his mind with fear and indecision, either kept a sullen silence or abused them violently for daring to come with empty hands: they departed very much frightened; only old Doramin kept his countrymen together and pursued his tactics inflexibly.†
Chpt 40inflexibly = in a manner that is not bendable or adaptable
- He was inflexible, and with the growing loneliness of his obstinacy his spirit seemed to rise above the ruins of his existence.†
Chpt 45inflexible = not bendable or adaptable
Definitions:
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(1)
(inflexible) not bendable or adaptablein 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
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)