Sentences with inflexible
in·flex·i·ble
I i - Workers insisted the new system was too inflexible.
- His opponents viewed him as stubborn, dogmatic, and inflexible.
- The VCE is narrow, inflexible and in need of an overhaul.
- That poverty was worse for children than onerous hours of child care imposed by inflexible workplaces.
- An inflexible rule
- An inflexible steel rod.
- An obsession with billing targets, deadline pressure and inflexible working hours contributed to the problems.
- Parents should give advice, not set down inflexible rules.
- An inflexible determination.
- inflexible rules.
- Inflexible implies an unyielding or unshakable firmness in mind or purpose, sometimes connoting stubbornness [his inflexible attitude]; adamant implies a firm or unbreakable resolve that remains unaffected by temptation or pleading [adamant to her entreaties]; implacable suggests the impossibility of pacifying or appeasing [implacable in his hatred]; obdurate implies a hardheartedness that is not easily moved to pity, sympathy, or forgiveness [her obdurate refusal to help]