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US
/ˌɪnˈtɹænsədʒənt, ˌɪnˈtɹænzədʒənt/
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[ UK /ɪntɹˈænsɪdʒənt/ ]
[ UK /ɪntɹˈænsɪdʒənt/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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impervious to pleas, persuasion, requests, reason
an intransigent conservative opposed to every liberal tendency
Cynthia was inexorable; she would have none of him
he is adamant in his refusal to change his mind
How To Use intransigent In A Sentence
- One more sour and intransigent despot finds his end.
- On the surface he was an optimistic extrovert, preaching freedom of conscience and religion; but underneath he was a brooding pessimist, with intransigent, darkly mystical views about the drama of human history and sexuality.
- It would be politically expedient to withdraw them, but the reason for their presence is an intransigent regime that refuses to do anything to allay suspicions that it is developing weapons of mass destruction.
- If the company remains intransigent, you will have reached a deadlock position and the ombudsman will take up the gauntlet on your behalf. Times, Sunday Times
- In a world at peril, socialists need to be intransigent tribunes of the poor - fighting for universal, free access to lifeline vaccines, anti-virals and antibiotics.
- They have at times had to withstand considerable provocation from intransigent bigots on the extreme wing of unionism.
- Yet I have to say that its rigorous and intransigent atonal style with a preponderance of chromatic note clusters and major seventh and minor ninth intervals now seems outworn, its initial impact long dissipated.
- That Mullen further stated he'd served with gays and lesbians since 1968 didn't move the intransigent stick-in-the-mud Republican dogma. John McCain's No Longer a Hero: His Stance on Patriotic Gays is Shameful and Un-American
- He can be intransigent and pig - headed at times.
- But this particular play with the dualities of public and private, viewer and viewed, in the intransigent space of a commercial gallery, fell short of an emancipatory vision.
