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  • adjective Not open to argument or further discussion.

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  • adjective Not arguable; that cannot be reasonably argued against.

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  • adjective against which no argument can be made

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un- +‎ arguable

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Examples

  • This much is true and unarguable, which is why he keeps referring to it in his replies; but the text itself weaves away from this point on to all kinds of other issues which do not logically follow from this axiom.

    Cohn and Lins [GRL 2005] « Climate Audit 2005

  • Yet again we see a case where good, honest, card-carrying zoologists track down an ethnoknown animal with successful results, or in other words an unarguable example of cryptozoological investigation being carried out by people who don’t consider themselves cryptozoologists (for other examples see At last: the Odedi revealed and The interesting and contentious discovery of the kipunji).

    Meet peccary # 4 Darren Naish 2006

  • Yet again we see a case where good, honest, card-carrying zoologists track down an ethnoknown animal with successful results, or in other words an unarguable example of cryptozoological investigation being carried out by people who don’t consider themselves cryptozoologists (for other examples see At last: the Odedi revealed and The interesting and contentious discovery of the kipunji).

    Archive 2006-07-01 Darren Naish 2006

  • Mr Justice Mitting ruled the legal challenge "unarguable" after considering the issues in private.

    WalesOnline - Home 2011

  • Mr Justice Mitting ruled the legal challenge "unarguable" after considering the issues in private.

    Evening Standard - Home 2011

  • Some parts of the Constitution are clear and unarguable.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » A Better Question 2010

  • These are issues on which economic theory is exceedingly clear, well-confirmed over decades of empirical support, and with a degree of unarguable consensus among trained scholars in the field.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » The Further Left You Are the Less You Know About Economics: 2010

  • The one thing already proven and achieved though is the unarguable power of film and its ability to shed the light on social issues.

    Faisal J. Abbas: Monopoly: The Saudi Short-Film Which Went a Long Way Faisal J. Abbas 2011

  • It's a simple, logically airtight, unarguable truth that a Christian preaching about the reality of hell is: A.

    John Shore: What Francis Chan (And His Ilk) Get So Terribly Wrong About Hell (VIDEO) John Shore 2011

  • It's a simple, logically airtight, unarguable truth that a Christian preaching about the reality of hell is: A.

    John Shore: What Francis Chan (And His Ilk) Get So Terribly Wrong About Hell (VIDEO) John Shore 2011

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