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inflexibly
adverb
usually disapprovinguk /ɪnˈflek.sə.bli/ us /ɪnˈflek.sə.bli/
in a way that is fixed and is unable or unwilling to change:
Once she has made a plan, she sticks inflexibly to it.
He was inflexibly determined to get his own way.
in a way that cannot move easily:
I started yoga because my joints were inflexibly stiff, and I couldn't pet the dog without pain.
The party leader is inflexibly opposed to forming a coalition government with one of the smaller parties.
She was always true to her religious principles, sometimes inflexibly so.
The curriculum here is too inflexibly academic to meet the practical needs of most students.
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Not able to be changed
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