Inflexibly
[ɪn'flɛksəbli]
Definition
(adv.) in an inflexible manner; '`You will--because you must!,' Madam told her inflexibly'.
Typist: Merritt--From WordNet
Definition
(adv.) In an inflexible manner.
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Examples
- 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.
- The more inflexibly stubborn the humour, the softer, the sadder the tone. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- She used to be pliability itself, but she was now inflexibly passive in her resignation--I might almost say in her despair. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- 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.
- A new inclination to the present good springs up, and makes it difficult for me to adhere inflexibly to my first purpose and resolution. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
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