Today’s “Word of the Day” is “intransigence“ and it is a noun meaning “unreasonable refusal or unwillingness to change/compromise on something (view, attitude, behaviour, position); inflexibility, obstinacy, rigidity, single-mindedness, stubbornness”.
Example Sentence: Rishi Sunak is not interested in the climate emergency – and everyone knows it. Forced to make a flying visit to Cop27, Mr Sunak’s intransigence made him an outcast (rejected person/outsider) at the UN summit in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt… The prime minister’s track record reveals a politician who governs in the Tories’ narrow (illiberal) political interest rather than the national one. Slashing fuel and air duties as chancellor just days before the last Cop summit – hosted by the UK – showed his true colours.
This word is present in The Guardian article The Guardian view on Rishi Sunak’s Cop27 trip: placing the planet on a road to hell and click here to read it.
Courtesy: The Guardian
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