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Incapable of being pleased. Not to be appeased, mollified, or pacified.

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Usage examples (35)
  • An implacable enemy
  • Allegra’s tone was neutral, her expression implacable.
  • “Well, that’s as may be, Lady Nell, but it’s not right,” Linton declared, her arms folded, her expression implacable.
  • So implacable is his revenge that he sends a party of soldiers into Egypt, some hundreds of miles, and they bring him back by force of arms.
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