Meanings
comparative more unpliably · superlative most unpliably
- In an unpliable manner.
They disappear at once on slightly relaxing the air-pressure, whilst true incipient thickenings of the surface remain white and unpliably stiff.
1902, Edwin Hurry Fenwick, Obscure Diseases of the Urethra, page 301 more example
The nature of the man, unpliably antagonistic to the world and the world's customs, might justify some such interpretation of his conduct as this.
1862, [William] Wilkie Collins, chapter XI, in No Name. […], volume I, London: Sampson Low, Son, & Co., […], →OCLC, 1st scene (Combe-Raven, Somesetshire), page 151
Origin
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