Unshiftable

Un`shift´a`ble


a.1.That may ot be shifted.
2.Shiftless; helpless.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.
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They issue a list of vague promises and champion a fingers-crossed mentality that it will end up alright, so don't worry, which seems to have gained unshiftable traction.
For example, delusions, doubtlessly one of the hallmark symptoms of schizophrenia, are unshiftable false beliefs and represent perturbance of certainty of an interpretation [74].
Millennium Point, the dismal student flats, the grim Ormiston Academy - all are testament to Birmingham's seemingly unshiftable addiction to mediocrity.
[13] applied the DE mixed methods to prediction-errors including expandable, shiftable, unexpandable and unshiftable (overflow /underflow) predicted errors to make the size of the side information package for blind detection as small as possible.
IT'S the end of January: that depressing month where you run out of money immediately and you try desperately to embark on some sort of strict diet or detox to rid yourself of the seemingly unshiftable stone you put on over the past year.
I think this was partly because I went to work for the best part of a week before realising my unshiftable headache was in fact flu (sorry people who interact with me) and partly because I took the tablets with meticulous zeal.
And having previously thought the position of manager Mick McCarthy was pretty much unshiftable, the week's lengthy talks in the wake of his approach from South Korea, and indeed continuing speculation surrounding the Republic of Ireland, the foundations are ever so slightly creaking.
That announcement was quickly followed by a U-turn of police chase proportions and now Sir Alex seems unshiftable.
Structuralism was widely influential; power was widely viewed as ubiquitous and domination as unshiftable. Class, race and gender became compulsory optics, this accompanied by a generalized miserabilism about the unshiftable nature of social structures.