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  • adjective not adjustable

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Examples

  • The seats are narrow and too flat and the steering wheel roughly the size of that found on an ocean-going yacht (and unadjustable).

    Archive 2009-07-01 Dungeekin 2009

  • The seats are narrow and too flat and the steering wheel roughly the size of that found on an ocean-going yacht (and unadjustable).

    In Which Dungeekin is Jeremy Clarkson. . . Dungeekin 2009

  • An illusion for remember their complex unadjustable eye.

    Ulysses 2003

  • The capacities of the market-basket, as then and there revealed, are prodigious, rivalling those of the trunk of travel; and yet out of the cover will still protrude the legs of unadjustable "broilers" and the green fringes of garden-stuff, and all this not counting in the oyster-pail, or the great watermelon which has to be carried separately by its wooden handle.

    Lippincott's Magazine, November 1885 Various

  • Deena was too superior a woman not to be ashamed of such thoughts, but the repression of her married life had developed a morbid sensitiveness, and she was always trying to adjust the unadjustable -- Simeon's small economies to her own ideas of personal dignity; she hardly realized how much the desire to live fittingly in their position had to do with her wish to earn an income.

    Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 5, June 1905 Various

  • Years afterward, when he went back to St. Regis ', he seemed to have forgotten the successes of sixth-form year, and to be able to picture himself only as the unadjustable boy who had hurried down corridors, jeered at by his rabid contemporaries mad with common sense.

    Book 1, Chapter 1. Amory, Son of Beatrice. 1920

  • Years afterward, when he went back to St. Regis ', he seemed to have forgotten the successes of sixth-form year, and to be able to picture himself only as the unadjustable boy who had hurried down corridors, jeered at by his rabid contemporaries mad with common sense.

    This Side of Paradise 1918

  • An illusion for remember their complex unadjustable eye.

    Ulysses James Joyce 1911

  • North-North-West, which was too shy a wind for us with our unadjustable substitute for a sail; and with the knowledge that unless the schooner happened to be bound in our direction we should miss her, and all our efforts would be thrown away, I dropped insensible in the cockpit and so remained for a full hour or more, despite the efforts of the others to revive me.

    The First Mate The Story of a Strange Cruise Harry Collingwood 1886

  • Yonder in the parlor with the Ducatels, ignorant of the poet's lines as they, the two aunts -- those two consciously irremovable, unadjustable, incarnated interdictions to their niece's marriage -- saw the primrose, the "business," as the pair in the bower thought they saw it themselves.

    The Flower of the Chapdelaines George Washington Cable 1884

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