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unfailingly

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un·fail·ing  (n-flng)
adj.
1. Always able to supply more; inexhaustible: an unfailing source of good stories.
2. Constant; unflagging: unfailing loyalty.
3. Incapable of error; infallible.
un·failing·ly adv.
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adv.1.unfailinglyunfailingly - without fail                        
Translations
unfailingly [ʌnˈfeɪlɪŋlɪ] ADV to be unfailingly courteous → ser siempre cortés, no faltar en ningún momento a la cortesía
unfailingly [ʌnˈfeɪlɪŋli] adv → immanquablement
He was unfailingly polite to customers
BUT Il était d'une politesse à toute épreuve avec les clients.
unfailingly
adv → immer, stets
unfailingly [ʌnˈfeɪlɪŋlɪ] adv → immancabilmente, senza fallo
unfailingly [ʌnˈfeɪlɪŋlɪ] adv → immancabilmente, senza fallo


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All the old methods that had been unfailingly crowned with success: the concentration of batteries on one point, an attack by reserves to break the enemy's line, and a cavalry attack by "the men of iron," all these methods had already been employed, yet not only was there no victory, but from all sides came the same news of generals killed and wounded, of reinforcements needed, of the impossibility of driving back the Russians, and of disorganization among his own troops.
War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo View in context
Higginbotham such a dinner was advertisement of his worldly achievement and prosperity, and he honored it by delivering platitudinous sermonettes upon American institutions and the opportunity said institutions gave to any hard-working man to rise - the rise, in his case, which he pointed out unfailingly, being from a grocer's clerk to the ownership of Higginbotham's Cash Store.
Martin Eden by London, Jack View in context
Thus did he pray, and father Jove pitying his tears vouchsafed him that his people should live, not die; forthwith he sent them an eagle, most unfailingly portentous of all birds, with a young fawn in its talons; the eagle dropped the fawn by the altar on which the Achaeans sacrificed to Jove the lord of omens; when, therefore, the people saw that the bird had come from Jove, they sprang more fiercely upon the Trojans and fought more boldly.
The Iliad by Homer View in context
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