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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
unflappable
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ A good radio-host must be unflappable.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Between numbers by the unflappable Ramblers, the stars are birthing new comedy duets.
▪ But the quiet, efficient and unflappable Brett managed to instil more patience into his charge.
▪ He called home often at first for hour-long talks with Maude, whose faith in him was unflappable.
▪ Hogan was a smooth, confident Foreign Office man, unflappable and oozing with reasonableness.
▪ Like Plum, she was unflappable and smart, but both her role and her manner were different from his.
▪ Many on Wall Street have therefore concluded that something panicked the usually unflappable chairman.
▪ She writes casually, with unflappable assurance.
▪ The Giants always said he had the stuff, the command, the unflappable nature of the very best pitchers.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
unflappable

1958, from un- (1) "not" + flap (v.) + -able. Originally used in reference to Harold Macmillan, British P.M. 1957-63.

Wiktionary
unflappable

a. Remaining composed and level-headed at all times; unswayed by adversity or excitement; impossible to fluster; not becoming frustrated or irritated easily. (1954 to date)

WordNet
unflappable

adj. not easily perturbed or excited or upset; marked by extreme calm and composure; "hitherto imperturbable, he now showed signs of alarm"; "an imperturbable self-possession"; "unflappable in a crisis" [syn: imperturbable]

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Unflappable

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Usage examples of "unflappable".

Eno, the unflappable, was still putting rounds through the back window.

Emma saw his face, his cool, unflappable facade would be back in place.

The butler turned smoothly around, his unflappable expression unchanged.

She looked exactly as she had hoped she might, efficient, unflappable and pleasant in a quite impersonal way.

She knew Charity by sight and tut-tutted in a motherly way when she saw the eye, wondering why Professor Wyllie-Lyon, usually so placid and unflappable, was so concerned.

Normally she was a calm, unflappable girl, but when there was a sharp rap on her window she was to be forgiven for giving an instantly suppressed shriek.

I don suppose there is room to doubt that what chiefly served to attract those women was the unflappable Mr.

Robyn was usually so unflappable she made NASA pilots look like twitching wrecks.

Through long acquaintance with the necessity of hiding her own considerable gifts under the sensible, unflappable guise of boring old nanny, Mrs McLachlan was now considering how best to disguise Damps newfound gift for sorcery and protect the baby from inadvertently alerting beings from the darker end of the magical spectrum to her presence.

This surprised Ragnar, for all his life he had known Ranald and he had always been a steady man, unflappable even in the face of the greatest of storms or the mightiest of orcas.

But Capers was unflappable and controlled and seemed interested in taking a careful inventory of all my antiques and paintings.

But you should come inside, Sam, so you canso you can meet some of rth,, She stared at her usually unflappable brother-in-law.

The normally unflappable Corky was surprised to hear Metcalfe's voice on a direct trunk line from Berlin.