uncompromising

Adjective

uncompromising (comparative more uncompromising, superlative most uncompromising)

1. Inflexible and unwilling to negotiate or make concessions.
   • But Richmond, his grandfather's darling, after one thoughtful glance cast under his lashes at that uncompromising countenance appeared to lose himself in his own reflections.1959, Georgette Heyer, chapter 1, in The Unknown Ajax
   • THE WINDS CALL: Cruises Near and Far (Scribner’s, $8.95), and for over twenty years the winds have been calling Carleton Mitchell, and this is his grateful response—a collection of salty (or at any rate saline) autobiographical essays covering the peripatetic cruises of a man who lives on a boat...1971 December 19, B. J. Kahn Jr., “Twenty‐Four Titles for the World Traveler’s Book Bag”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original...
2. Principled.