unassailable
IPA: ʌnʌsˈeɪɫʌbʌɫ
noun
- Something, such as a belief, that cannot be assailed.
adjective
- Secure against attack; impregnable.
- (by extension) Undeniable, incontestable or incontrovertible.
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Examples of "unassailable" in Sentences
- The "unassailable" McCain POW-hero narrative has now been assailed.
- Her use of the expression unassailable patriarchy arguably may not include all male Catholics.
- Here, in unassailable privacy, they do their tricks for one another, then bask in their own applause.
- Worst of these in my view is the BBC, which has taken up position in what someone once called the unassailable bastion of biased ignorance.
- Leighton called "unassailable" the government's argument that Witt's reinstatement would result in an inconsistent policy in enforcing "don't ask, don't tell."
- When Bernard Madoff made off with $50 billion from elite investors, it caused a virtual tectonic shift in the idea of unassailable integrity among the Wall Street chieftains.
- After all, not only do we think what the teacher did was deplorable, but it also violated the letter of the law by declaring certain political views unassailable, which is untrue (no matter how PC those opinions are).
- Lord Justice Maurice Kay and Mr Justice Simon, sitting at the High Court in London, said it might be that Ms Smith's decision was "unassailable" - but ruled that Mr McKinnon had an arguable case that should be tested in court.
- To be "unassailable" -- to exchange the soul of a Viking for that of a New Yorker, that of the quick pike for that of the lazy carp whose fat back grows moss covered in a dangerless pond -- that must never become the wish of a German.
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