Ungetroundable
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Ungetroundable is an adjective meaning Unavoidable; inevitable.
Meaning
Unavoidable; inevitable.
Example Sentences
In a lazy simplification, Watt casts the Beckettian and the Troubles as ‘ungetroundable’ (a borrowed term from Muldoon’s criticism) facts, adhering to his subjects’ poetry.
If points cannot be maintained by unanswerable and ungetroundable arguments, then let all the puerile defections be fully unfolded to the scrutiny of the readers of the ubiquitous Rural.
He also acknowledged, however, that cultural anthropologists were as prone to bias as anyone else working in the field, referring to ‘the ungetroundable fact that all ethnographical descriptions are homemade, that they are the describers’ descriptions, not those of the described’ (Geertz 1988: 144–5).
The problem of earning their own living is one with which scores of thousands of women are brought to face every year, and being a very ugly, hard and ungetroundable problem, seen from squarely in front with the wolf snarling in the background, it is a matter of interest and congratulation to many women when one ingenious toiler contrives a new solution.
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