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comparative more unalertable · superlative most unalertable
- Not alertable; unresponsive to attempts to alert.
Unfortunately, the Secretary of State was unalertable.
1978, Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons, Parliamentary Debates: Official Report - Volume 950, page dlxxv2 more examples
It would, if the motivating factors for such perception of the unalertable nature of facts are either self-justification or self-pity.
1972, Rohit Mehta, From Mind to Super-mind: A Commentary on the Bhagavad Gita, page 206Those who are unalertable will likely continue to consider externalities a minor problem, believe in perpetual motion machines, 100% recycling, and eternal growth, and otherwise act as if the laws of nature did not exist (Beckerman 1992).
1994, AnnMari Jansson, Monica Hammer, Carl Folke, Investing in Natural Capital: The Ecological Economics, page 41
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