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Meanings of pig-headedly in English

Portuguese
obstinadamente

In a stubborn unregenerate manner.

obstinadamente
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Examples for "stubbornly"
Examples for "stubbornly"
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But similar problems have dotted the US for years, often lingering stubbornly.
The Guardian
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Inflation remained stubbornly above official targets in every month of last year.
Reuters
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Years had passed, but the editors remained stubbornly committed to their question.
Wired
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That's why oil companies are fighting for it so stubbornly, Poletayev said.
Reuters
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Yet in Ohio, despite the intense effort, two different realities stubbornly persist.
The Guardian
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But nothing happened; the cows obstinately refused to step down the plank.
The French Twins
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Only they were obstinately traveling the wrong road in search of it.
Marjorie Dean, College Sophomore
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This the Government obstinately refused to admit; and meanwhile time was passing.
The River War: An Account of the Reconquest of the Sudan
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And in spite of her fatigue she obstinately followed the procession afterwards.
The Three Cities Trilogy: Lourdes, Volume 5
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In the next place, they were obstinately resolute against all material concessions.
An Essay on the Evils of Popular Ignorance
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Somehow they weren't clear enough, and the path remained obdurately in place.
The evolutionary void
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He tried again and again, but my pupils remained obdurately small.
Without Prejudice
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Cary tried to shake my resolution, but I was obdurately silent.
The Lost Naval Papers
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But still she held Mr. Bellingham's arm, obdurately refusing to dance.
Doctor Claudius, A True Story
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Ukraine's president Viktor Yanukovych has so far obdurately refused to bow to EU pressure.
The Guardian
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And why does this involve you? Tachyon's mouth tightened mulishly.
Wild Cards IV: Aces Abroad
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This will teach you what comes of acting mulishly.
Original Short Stories — Volume 09
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Protest was unavailing; the lieutenant was mulishly stubborn.
Heart of the Sunset
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Or perhaps he was just being mulishly dense?
Ashes and bones: an emma fielding mystery
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They are everywhere -circled and dug in, or circling mulishly in search of a crusade.
The Guardian
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Alec Stewart, cussedly admirable stalwart though he may have been over the years, is now 40.
The Guardian
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Park was often described as "his own man," being too cussedly independent to serve as anyone's greenkeeper or lesson-teacher.
Tommy's honor: the story of old tom morris and young tom morris,...
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As someone who still remains at times cussedly loyal to an old manual typewriter, I recoil from such modern and impersonal traits.
The Guardian
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"See here, pardner, you act most cussedly like a man keeping watch on me."
The Eagle's Heart
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"You needn't be so cussedly offensive, need you?"
Two Sides of the Face: Midwinter Tales
Usage of pig-headedly in English
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And yet Gordon Brown is pig-headedly pursuing a third runway just to try and prove a political point.
The Guardian
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He knows in his heart that the Ministry are pig-headedly wrong, and that we are in the right.
In the Valley
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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.
The Purple Cloud
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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.
The History of Sir Richard Calmady: A Romance
Translations for pig-headedly
Pig-headedly through the time