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intransigent

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1. intransigent - Noun

2. intransigent - Adjective

3. intransigent - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Refusing compromise; uncompromising; irreconcilable.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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According to its doctors, my one intransigent desire is to have been a Confederate general, and because I could not or would not become anything else, I set up for poet and beg an to invent fictions about the personal ambitions that my society has no use for. Allen Tate

On the nationalist-conservative Right... Hitler was portrayed for the most part as intransigent and irresponsible, a wild and vulgar demagogue, not a statesman, an obstacle to political recovery, the head of an extreme movement with menacing socialistic tendencies. Ian Kershaw

I wish to salute the intransigent patriotism and the unflinching determination for independence of the Roumanian president. I was allied to him by a true friendship. Muhammad Reza Pahlavi

Do not lose your knowledge that man's proper estate is an upright posture, an intransigent mind, and a step that travels unlimited roads. Ayn Rand

With the possible exception of my two predecessors, I know better than anyone how complicated and intransigent are some of the foreign policy questions that confront a President. Jimmy Carter

I would like to salute [Ceaușescu's] intransigent patriotism and ferocious will for independence. A veritable amity links me to him. Nicolae Ceaușescu

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