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Unavoidably

Unavoidable \Un`a*void"a*ble\, a.

  1. Not avoidable; incapable of being shunned or prevented; inevitable; necessary; as, unavoidable troubles.

  2. (Law) Not voidable; incapable of being made null or void.
    --Blackstone.

    Unavoidable hemorrhage (Med.), hemorrhage produced by the afterbirth, or placenta, being situated over the mouth of the womb so as to require detachment before the child can be born. [1913 Webster] -- Un`a*void"a*ble*ness, n. -- Un`a*void"a*bly, adv.

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unavoidably

adv. In an unavoidable manner.

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unavoidably

adv. by necessity; "the new council was inescapably of political meaning" [syn: inescapably, ineluctably, inevitably]

Usage examples of "unavoidably".

And in the face of the accumulating stresses created by the maladjustments of Versailles, this galaxy of humbugs to whom democracy had entrusted the direction of human beings--humbugs unavoidably, for the system insisted upon it regardless of the best intentions--was equally enigmatical and impotent.

World War II the Japanese had been influenced chiefly by European architectural styles, after the war the main foreign influence was, probably unavoidably, American.

Let it suffice to say that for some years Misson made speeches, robbed ships, and now and again, when unavoidably driven to it, would reluctantly slaughter his enemies.

However, has it occurred to you that under present conditions, the most feasible route may unavoidably be circuitousnot to say ambagious, periphrastic and anfractuous?

Now, any book about India written by an Indian must at this date almost unavoidably be the story of a grievance, and I notice that Mr Anand has already got himself into trouble by what is wrongly described as his bitterness.

All this way, as I say, obsessive in nature, meaning that I returned again and again, eagerly, impatiently, unavoidably, in any free moment, to my projections and analyses.

The climate of the humid rain forest served to magnify the pungency of its body odor, which unavoidably reeked of previously ingested flesh.

Hal, who's empty but not dumb, theorizes privately that what passes for hip cynical transcendence of sentiment is really some kind of fear of being really human, since to be really human fat least as he conceptualizes it) is probably to be unavoidably sentimental and naive and goo-prone and generally pathetic, is to be in some basic interior way forever infantile, some sort of not-quite-right-looking infant dragging itself anaclitically around the map, with big wet eyes and froggy-soft skin, huge skull, gooey drool.

How could I hide those prejudices, those petty contempts, those conditioned reflexes with which we unavoidably think of Changelings?

The ruin, therefore, of the poor girl must, he foresaw, unavoidably attend his deserting her.

Waiting simply an eternity in this ghastly room filled with plastic coffee cups and teeming ashtrays and the Daily News all over the floor when they told us the lawyer for Mummy's estate got up and claimed this loathsome little priest who's a witness or something was unavoidably detained on official diocesian business doing God knows how many widows and orphans out of their last crust, I mean of course those weren't his exact words but they got a postponement and it suddenly seemed the perfect chance for this visit I've promised and here we are!

The pride of the inceptors had been unavoidably damaged and a number of the nootchi had been aggrieved.

The question is whether the unavoidably mediated aspect of all experience invalidates any similarities in any experiences at all (mysticism is completely secondary in this regard).

It demonstrates once again that the staggering Seller Laboratories success, which renders death in many cases merely temporary, will unavoidably bring about a massive revolution in our codes of legal and medical ethics, and indeed a change in our entire manner of life.

Nevertheless the chief navigator got it, recorded it, checked and repeated it “Figures only approximations because of lack of exact data on variations in density of medium and on distance necessarily lost in detouring stars” the speaker chattered on “suggest instructing your second navigator to communicate with navigating officers Flotilla ZKD at time twelve dash zero to correct courses to compensate unavoidably erroneous assumptions in computation Base Navigations off.