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Meanings of obdurate in anglès
Stubbornly persistent in wrongdoing.
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Examples for "flint"
Examples for "flint"
1
I have food, water, a flint, and the rest you asked for.
2
The Strongs find the flint on which the Geisners strike the steel.
3
Burins and specialized flint tools were difficult to make in any case.
4
He is one of the best workers of flint I've ever known.
5
Let us walk along the cliffs together and search for flint arrows.
1
Home is New York, stony and tall: its real estate is real.
2
The soil in the valley was rich, but stony in some parts.
3
It drops here and there, in good ground and in stony places.
4
Perhaps His Grey Grace will choose you to ornament his stony court.
5
The stony-faced security team lead Ben back up to Clarke's twentieth-floor office.
1
I suppose she has always come across as a wee but flinty.
2
It must be hardened so as to make it a flinty steel.
3
The times were hard, and they called for men of flinty fibre.
4
It must have been disheartening work, picking away at the flinty ledges.
5
With flashing eyes, Justine Delande sprang up, facing the flinty-hearted old Scotsman.
1
The drift-clays are the result of the grinding up of granitic rocks.
2
This was poor, granitic country, no good for anything but growing trees.
3
The eruptions consequently took place at the lowest point of the granitic chain.
4
The little Indian village stands at the foot of a lofty granitic mountain.
5
Yet many a time I have seen those lips harden into granitic stubbornness.
Usage of obdurate in anglès
1
The governor was obdurate in his decision to stick in the race.
2
But the French Court was obdurate; it would not furnish a penny.
3
She changes her mind; she is willing where before she was obdurate.
4
But her villa looks very dark; its closed windows are very obdurate.
5
The surface of his paintings is wall-like in itself: solid, obdurate, opaque.
6
The Counsellors were admitted, but the Queen was as obdurate as ever.
7
The Winnebagos saw him in a new mood to-day, stern, inflexible, obdurate.
8
Mr. Farleigh remained a gray, faintly glistening, obdurate oak made of stone.
9
Purposely he hesitated and haggled over the amount, but Paulvitch was obdurate.
10
The master appeared obdurate, and we had gone too far to recede.
11
There is the obdurate emptiness of dreams, whose lights are only imaginary.
12
Inasmuch as she was obdurate, the king ordered her to be executed.
13
The Lieutenant endeavoured to persuade him to surrender, but he was obdurate.
14
Sadly and silently I turned from that obdurate man and walked forward.
15
A little lever that had hitherto been obdurate now confessed itself mobile.
16
By moving exhortations to virtue, she softened and converted several obdurate sinners.
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Obdurate across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Less common