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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
unassailable
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
lead
▪ Her guile and genius has helped Cane establish a seemingly unassailable lead over the weak and divided Opposition.
▪ The result gives Walsall Kipping an unassailable lead with one round of matches left.
position
▪ Perhaps, thought Robert, Mr Mafouz had bought his son into an unassailable position on the cricket team.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
unassailable logic
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But part of him, something of his character that had been forbearing and unassailable, had let him down.
▪ For the girls it is an unassailable tradition.
▪ He offers the unassailable proposition that without money there can be no inflation.
▪ Its editorial integrity ought to be unassailable, at least in its hard news sections.
▪ Most of the students felt that sincerity was an unassailable virtue: what mattered was to say what you felt.
▪ The result gives Walsall Kipping an unassailable lead with one round of matches left.
▪ You are too used to dealing with theists who adopt a position of unassailable certainty in their beliefs.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
unassailable

1590s, from un- (1) "not" + assailable (see assail (v.)). Related: Unassailably.

Wiktionary
unassailable

a. 1 secure against attack; impregnable 2 (context by extension English) undeniable, incontestable or incontrovertible

WordNet
unassailable
  1. adj. able to withstand attack; "an impregnable fortress"; "fortifications that made the frontier inviolable" [syn: impregnable, inviolable, secure, strong, unattackable]

  2. impossible to assail [syn: untouchable]

  3. without flaws or loopholes; "an ironclad contract"; "a watertight alibi"; "a bulletproof argument" [syn: ironclad, unshakable, watertight, bulletproof]

Usage examples of "unassailable".

And yes, Bowser had swept through that affair with remarkable aplomb, his oration and body language flawless, his case-law memory astonishing, his logic unassailable.

Now Kombo realised that even if he should fall into the clutches of King Multuggerah, his possession of the pituri, and his knowledge of where the plant might be found, would give him an unassailable position in the Maianbar camp.

Contades, with thirty thousand men, had taken up an unassailable position: his right wing on the Weser, and his left on impassable bogs and quagmires, and with his front covered by the Bastau, a deep and unfordable brook.

She believed that his compassion, humanity, love, warmth, all observable qualities, overlay a core as rigid and unweathered and unassailable as the rocky skeletons of the mountains that endured over the eons while everything about them was worn away.

The Deadhouse also provided us with an unassailable base of operations.

Untouched, unassailable, undefiled, that mighty world-force, that nourisher of nations, wrapped in Nirvanic calm, indifferent to the human swarm, gigantic, resistless, moved onward in its appointed grooves.

The main fortress seemed not only unassailed but unassailable, and Colonel Raden viewed the morrow with equanimity.

So long as no one else could control the gateways, they had an unassailable advantage in wars.

Certainly, Isidore was an exceptional case of notorious, unassailable virtue.

Hold to your unassailable self-confidenceaye, some might well call it megalomania, but not Kruppe, for he too is in possession of unassailable self-confidence, such as only mortals are capable of and then rightfully but a mere handful the world over.

This means that after Jeremy had been brought into MAPHIS as an infomorph, he and Leo both had their own kind of privileged access: Leo's being hardwired and theoretically unassailable, Jeremy's being more vulnerable but carefully hidden in huge chunks of program code.

We need not concern ourselves with boasts from Vanam that their mentors' links with Planir's expeditions to Kel Ar'Ayen give their scholars unassailable superiority in such studies.

Although Nicola's kisses sometimes shocked him - with their liquidity, their penetration, their hunger her inhibition was unassailable, without blindspots, and impressively intransigent.

Carl felt his easy confidence in the unassailable righteousness of the Cyberbooks project begin to melt away under the baleful glower of the judge's implacable eyes.

The logic of his position is unassailable, continued the basso profundo, sounding, to all in the room save Ousanas, like the voice of doom itself.