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US
/ˌɪnˌfɫɛksɪˈbɪɫɪti/
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[ UK /ɪnflˌɛksɪbˈɪlɪti/ ]
[ UK /ɪnflˌɛksɪbˈɪlɪti/ ]
NOUN
- a lack of physical flexibility
- the quality of being rigid and rigorously severe
How To Use inflexibility In A Sentence
- The snag about an endowment mortgage is its inflexibility.
- Cognitive inflexibility is a signature trait of the conservative mind. Think Progress » GOP Sen. Dick Lugar rebukes Cheney criticism of Obama as ‘unfair.’
- As pointed out before, one of the reasons for wage inflexibility is labour market regulation.
- Cognitive inflexibility is the hallmark of conservative swine and Doc Hunt is the standard. Think Progress » Will Sarah Palin call on Rush Limbaugh to apologize for saying liberal activists are ‘retards’?
- The Western Front does not cover everything -- the deceptions of the Bush Administration, the unintelligence of the intelligence community, the incompetence of the US civilian authority in Baghdad, the mercenariness of the humanitarian and reconstruction industry, the inflexibility of the US military leadership - no one film could indulge all those wrongs. Stewart Nusbaumer: Film Review: The Western Front
- Don't be victimized by negative emotions and thinking. Don't be handicapped by stubbornness and inflexibility. Dr T.P.Chia
- Inflexibility of thigh muscles that support the knee joint.
- The result is generally polarization, lack of commitment, inflexibility, the premature loss of scientific excellence, and fossilization, which are sufficiently familiar and uncomfortable to require no elaboration. Archive 2009-02-01
- Such hardware - related inflexibility is now being addressed by adaptive, software - based wireless designs.
- And this kind of ideological inflexibility is the best way for a party to squander a very favorable electoral landscape. Matthew Yglesias » The Limits of Scott Brown