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Definition of incontestable in English: incontestableadjective ɪnkənˈtɛstəb(ə)lˌɪnkənˈtɛstəb(ə)l Not able to be disputed. 无可争议的 Example sentencesExamples - Does that not amount to the Minister making a conclusive and incontestable decision about a matter of law?
- Together, the president and vice-president (or just ‘the presidency’) would be able to act without fear or favour, and would possess an incontestable mandate.
- I'm the new owner of this house, with clear and incontestable title.
- But it's incontestable that if it was improved, people would stay longer and spend more money.
- The rationale for the government's proposed change, however, is incontestable.
- Its benefits have been so incontestable that in the five millennia since the advent of the written word numerous poets and writers have extolled its virtues.
- If argument did not deliver incontestable conclusions, where was one to go?
- He is wrong in believing that what is contestable is ‘knowledge’, and in failing to acknowledge that much knowledge is incontestable.
- Nevertheless, that soccer as a global phenomenon has yet to eradicate what was once called ‘The English Disease’ remains incontestable.
- Regardless of whether you believe global warming to be a threat to the survival of humanity or simply the product of another wave in the world's oscillating climate, the problem of pollution remains incontestable.
- It is unequivocal and incontestable, and what has happened?
- This much is incontestable - in the last decade (I won't go further back) we have seen the emergence in Ireland of what Ms Flynn rightly described as a ‘tabloid culture’.
- They were all going down together, into the dark… Just as soon as enough major players decided to contest the incontestable, and put the simulations to the audit of war.
- And I also think it is incontestable that Protestantism has been an overwhelming influence in creating the modern world.
- Dispute the numbers, but the big picture is incontestable.
- There are certain incontestable themes in his work.
- His failure to take consistent foreign policy positions, though more recent, is incontestable.
- If the amount of these matches is divisible by a certain number, such as 7 (which is said to be God's number), there is an incontestable argument that the Spirit of God is ever present in the text.
- Now, there are some interesting restrictions on English reduplication, but the plain fact of it is incontestable (at least in every North American dialect I've ever come across).
- The Press Complaints Commission rules were scrupulously observed; the only minor shown had his face obscured; and the story was of incontestable public interest.
Synonyms incontrovertible, indisputable, undeniable, irrefutable, unassailable, beyond dispute, unquestionable, beyond question, indubitable, not in doubt, beyond doubt, beyond a shadow of a doubt compelling, convincing, clinching, airtight, watertight, unarguable, undebatable, unanswerable, emphatic, categorical unequivocal, unambiguous, unmistakable, clear, clear-cut, certain, sure, definite, definitive, proven, demonstrable, self-evident, positive, decisive, conclusive, final, ultimate rare inarguable, irrefragable, apodictic
Derivativesnounɪnkəntɛstəˈbɪlɪtiˌɪnkənˌtɛstəˈbɪlədi The conclusion concerning incontestability of individual long term care insurance policies depends on whether or not the policy is tax qualified for Federal income tax purposes. Example sentencesExamples - The second concerned the incontestability of such law.
- Registrant must submit an affidavit of continuing use between the fifth and sixth anniversary of registration, and may submit an affidavit of incontestability at the same time
- In a sense, the evidence provided the bricks and mortar of the case; Huntley had threaded his thin and frantic line of defence around their incontestability.
- Another common caveat to incontestability clauses limits the period of disability.
adverb ɪnkənˈtɛstəbliˌɪnkənˈtɛstəbli He simply trumped it six days later with his incontestably magnificent fifth symphony. Example sentencesExamples - Dr Johnson is endlessly quoted here, because he is so incontestably right.
- Seligman gets his critique under way with a sweeping indictment of the doctrine of natural rights, which he claims has been proved incontestably by modern jurisprudence and political philosophy to be mistaken.
- The 31-year-old is incontestably the dazzling jewel in the crown of an otherwise less than ornate side.
- Never can I recall my sense of that ancient democratic truth being so emphatically, incontestably made flesh.
OriginLate 17th century: from French, or from medieval Latin incontestabilis, from in- 'not' + contestabilis 'able to be called upon in witness', from the verb contestari (see contest). Definition of incontestable in US English: incontestableadjectiveˌinkənˈtestəb(ə)lˌɪnkənˈtɛstəb(ə)l Not able to be disputed. 无可争议的 Example sentencesExamples - The rationale for the government's proposed change, however, is incontestable.
- If the amount of these matches is divisible by a certain number, such as 7 (which is said to be God's number), there is an incontestable argument that the Spirit of God is ever present in the text.
- And I also think it is incontestable that Protestantism has been an overwhelming influence in creating the modern world.
- His failure to take consistent foreign policy positions, though more recent, is incontestable.
- I'm the new owner of this house, with clear and incontestable title.
- Together, the president and vice-president (or just ‘the presidency’) would be able to act without fear or favour, and would possess an incontestable mandate.
- Does that not amount to the Minister making a conclusive and incontestable decision about a matter of law?
- It is unequivocal and incontestable, and what has happened?
- He is wrong in believing that what is contestable is ‘knowledge’, and in failing to acknowledge that much knowledge is incontestable.
- Dispute the numbers, but the big picture is incontestable.
- They were all going down together, into the dark… Just as soon as enough major players decided to contest the incontestable, and put the simulations to the audit of war.
- Its benefits have been so incontestable that in the five millennia since the advent of the written word numerous poets and writers have extolled its virtues.
- There are certain incontestable themes in his work.
- Regardless of whether you believe global warming to be a threat to the survival of humanity or simply the product of another wave in the world's oscillating climate, the problem of pollution remains incontestable.
- Nevertheless, that soccer as a global phenomenon has yet to eradicate what was once called ‘The English Disease’ remains incontestable.
- This much is incontestable - in the last decade (I won't go further back) we have seen the emergence in Ireland of what Ms Flynn rightly described as a ‘tabloid culture’.
- If argument did not deliver incontestable conclusions, where was one to go?
- Now, there are some interesting restrictions on English reduplication, but the plain fact of it is incontestable (at least in every North American dialect I've ever come across).
- But it's incontestable that if it was improved, people would stay longer and spend more money.
- The Press Complaints Commission rules were scrupulously observed; the only minor shown had his face obscured; and the story was of incontestable public interest.
Synonyms incontrovertible, indisputable, undeniable, irrefutable, unassailable, beyond dispute, unquestionable, beyond question, indubitable, not in doubt, beyond doubt, beyond a shadow of a doubt
OriginLate 17th century: from French, or from medieval Latin incontestabilis, from in- ‘not’ + contestabilis ‘able to be called upon in witness’, from the verb contestari (see contest). |