incontrovertibly


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Related to incontrovertibly: surreptitiously, patois, earnestly

in·con·tro·vert·i·ble

 (ĭn-kŏn′trə-vûr′tə-bəl, ĭn′kŏn-)
adj.
Impossible to dispute; unquestionable: incontrovertible proof of the defendant's innocence.
in·con′tro·vert′i·bil′i·ty, in·con′tro·vert′i·ble·ness n.
in·con′tro·vert′i·bly adv.
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Adv.1.incontrovertibly - in an obvious and provable manner; "his documentary sources are demonstrably wrong"
demonstrably, provably
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incontrovertibly

[ɪnˌkɒntrəˈvɜːtɪblɪ] ADV → de manera incontrovertible
this is incontrovertibly true → ésta es una verdad incontrovertible
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incontrovertibly

adv → unbestreitbar
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In short, to bring the matter at once to a point, it was incontrovertibly evident that somebody had taken the shop and fixtures of the long-retired and forgotten Mr.
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It proved, incontrovertibly, the disastrous effects of machinery and division of labour; the concentration of capital and land in a few hands; overproduction and crises; it pointed out the inevitable ruin of the petty bourgeois and peasant, the misery of the proletariat, the anarchy in production, the crying inequalities in the distribution of wealth, the industrial war of extermination between nations, the dissolution of old moral bonds, of the old family relations, of the old nationalities.
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Yet a closer study of the man's features, carriage, and the contour of his head carried almost incontrovertibly the assurance that he was insane, while the tones of his voice and his gestures resembled those of a sane and intelligent mortal.
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The youth in front by the chain prevented him from attacking the youth behind, and the youth behind, with the rope, prevented him from attacking the youth in front, and both prevented him from attacking Collins, whom he knew incontrovertibly to be the master of evil and hurt.
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When one has been duped so incontrovertibly and so publicly there's only one thing to say: Is my face red!
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Paula Hardy, chief executive of Welsh Women's Aid, said yesterday: "Our research demon-strates incontrovertibly that if the UK Government is to stand by its commitment to ensure that legal aid is retained for domestic violence victims in private family law proceedings, the domestic violence gateway criteria must be widened to better reflect the range of routes that women take to safety and the kind of evidence that they might have.
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