irremovable
Americanadjective
adjective
Other Word Forms
- irremovability noun
- irremovableness noun
- irremovably adverb
Etymology
Origin of irremovable
Example Sentences
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Barbra Streisand has the only caricature screwed to the wall, because fans stole the original; so now she remains, irremovable, with her admonition “Don’t steal this one” inscribed above her signature.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 25, 2021
The philosopher Isaiah Berlin called the opposition between equality and freedom an “intrinsic, irremovable element in human life.”
From The New Yorker • Dec. 31, 2018
Article 14 of the Code of Ethics of the UCI state that the members of the Ethics Commission "shall be irremovable", unless they die or resign.
From Reuters • Jul. 15, 2014
Before long her mouth was frozen into a pretty but irremovable grin.
From Time Magazine Archive
I will probably startle some of my readers by making the admission that if there is any such natural or irremovable inferiority, then a belief in political or economic equality is a blunder.
From The Book of Life by Sinclair, Upton
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