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Meanings of mulishly in English
Portuguese
obstinadamente Synonyms
Examples for "stubbornly"
Examples for "stubbornly"
1
But similar problems have dotted the US for years, often lingering stubbornly.
2
Inflation remained stubbornly above official targets in every month of last year.
3
Years had passed, but the editors remained stubbornly committed to their question.
4
That's why oil companies are fighting for it so stubbornly, Poletayev said.
5
Yet in Ohio, despite the intense effort, two different realities stubbornly persist.
1
But nothing happened; the cows obstinately refused to step down the plank.
2
Only they were obstinately traveling the wrong road in search of it.
3
This the Government obstinately refused to admit; and meanwhile time was passing.
4
And in spite of her fatigue she obstinately followed the procession afterwards.
5
In the next place, they were obstinately resolute against all material concessions.
1
Somehow they weren't clear enough, and the path remained obdurately in place.
2
He tried again and again, but my pupils remained obdurately small.
3
Cary tried to shake my resolution, but I was obdurately silent.
4
But still she held Mr. Bellingham's arm, obdurately refusing to dance.
5
Ukraine's president Viktor Yanukovych has so far obdurately refused to bow to EU pressure.
1
Alec Stewart, cussedly admirable stalwart though he may have been over the years, is now 40.
2
Park was often described as "his own man," being too cussedly independent to serve as anyone's greenkeeper or lesson-teacher.
3
As someone who still remains at times cussedly loyal to an old manual typewriter, I recoil from such modern and impersonal traits.
4
"See here, pardner, you act most cussedly like a man keeping watch on me."
5
"You needn't be so cussedly offensive, need you?"
1
And yet Gordon Brown is pig-headedly pursuing a third runway just to try and prove a political point.
2
He knows in his heart that the Ministry are pig-headedly wrong, and that we are in the right.
3
Clark was advised to kill one or two of the deer, but he pig-headedly refused: and by the beginning of summer they were all dead.
4
It is so immeasurably more unpleasant to be frightful than to see that which is so, that I'm afraid my sympathies remain rather pig-headedly one-sided.
Usage of mulishly in English
1
And why does this involve you? Tachyon's mouth tightened mulishly.
2
This will teach you what comes of acting mulishly.
3
Protest was unavailing; the lieutenant was mulishly stubborn.
4
Or perhaps he was just being mulishly dense?
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They are everywhere -circled and dug in, or circling mulishly in search of a crusade.
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The longboat balked mulishly as it scraped its keel on the sandy bottom every few yards.
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He shrugged mulishly and went very unhelpful.
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Gammer looked mulishly down at the grass.
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He set his jaw mulishly.
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Thandi set her teeth, mulishly.
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He folded his arms mulishly.
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He eyed her mulishly.
13
He looked annoyed, then mulishly stubborn, then frustrated, as if what he was looking for lay forever beyond his reach.
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Instead, a smallish woman with long, dark hair, an angelic face, and emerald-like eyes kept mulishly butting her way into my head.
15
Our government, unlike the Japanese, is mulishly opposed to increasing public debt to compensate for the private sector trying to reduce its debt.
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The cussedness of the inanimate was strong in this pen: since its reservoir was quite empty it mulishly refused more service without refilling.
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Mulishly through the time