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Meanings of mulish in English

Unreasonably rigid in the face of argument or entreaty or attack.

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Examples for "hardheaded"
1
In his hardheaded view, barbarian invasions cleaned up stagnant and oppressive regimes.
Wired
2
His hardheaded, no-nonsense attitude had come as a momentary relief to Lanigan.
Can You Feel Anything When I Do This?
3
If the prosecutor is hardheaded, you might have to take the stand.
Gods go begging
4
He missed the Valeman's peculiar mixture of hardheaded practicality and antiquated beliefs.
The Sword of Shannara
5
Little Muddy Dove Woman can be as hardheaded as a bull buffalo.
Frontier courtship
Usage of mulish in English
1
That was part of the reason he'd gotten mulish, at the end.
Crown of Slaves
2
Her lank grizzled body, naked tail, and mulish look, I remembered well.
The War Trail: The Hunt of the Wild Horse
3
But here, to my horror, that young man's mulish obstinacy came in.
Allan and the Holy Flower
4
A horse with the staggers was not in it with a mulish Lampton.
There was a King in Egypt
5
He used to sit low in his chair and look mulish.
The New Machiavelli
6
Surely you do not mean to persist in that mulish vagary?
Bartleby, the scrivener
7
They the mulish slaves to tradition, blind to daring new opportunities?
Blood and Bone
8
Letty hugs herself, her mulish teeth clenched to stop them chattering.
The crimson petal and the white
9
The mulish, obstinate, and proud man never says, I don't know.
Bunyan Characters (1st Series)
10
Tightminded-that'swhat he is; self-headed, not to say mulish, by doggie!
Ma Pettengill
11
This impenetrability and something mulish in her attitude annoyed him.
Saint's Progress
12
The boy appears to be really sick, or else he is obstinate and mulish.
Marie Antoinette and Her Son
13
And they would have been such a help if I had not been-somulish.
Jane Allen, Junior
14
Sir Richmond considered something mulish in the doctor's averted face.
The Secret Places of the Heart
15
Don't I show patience teaching that mulish brother of mine?
Her mother's hope
16
Hat's contrary; yes, she is; she's mulish when she's crossed.
The Best Short Stories of 1919, and the Yearbook of the American...
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