Meanings of mulishness in English

He did not like this mulishness, this almost ostentatious look of obduracy.

And Lanyard shrugged appreciation of the futility of more contention against such mulishness.

The acute form of this mulishness is writer's block.

I shall not tell the name of the book (mere mulishness!)

Separate honor from mulishness if you can.

I'd bet it gets them both out of a lot of trouble their mulishness gets them into.'

People of plainer speech said it was "mulishness."

If this is a day of destiny, no stupid mulishness of mine shall thwart the happy combination of the stars.

Pilate knew that he had prostituted his office in condemning Jesus, and he revenged himself for weak compliance by ill-timed mulishness.

A sort of passive mulishness it was, impervious to argument, immovable under the most sympathetic pressure, which particularly tried the Dabney patience.

I cried, thoroughly aroused by his mulishness, do you deliberately choose to sacrifice the life of this lady to your bull-headed fanaticism?

But, most unfortunately, it is in the very best things of life that the true mulishness of the obstinate man most comes out.

Having found himself out, unless his mulishness is almost past sanity, he begins to reject his habit of resistance of his own accord.

Stephanie's face fell, and Shelton folded his arms across his chest and sat back from the table, his own expression a model of mulishness.

"Humph," half laughed the lawyer, though with obvious disgust at the mulishness in Peter's face and voice.

"You'd see the whole-thewhole scheme come to nothing, would you?"-hescolded at her-"ratherthan abate a jot of your confounded mulishness."