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Meanings of pigheadedness in English
Catalan
caparrudesa Resolute adherence to your own ideas or desires.
Usage of pigheadedness in English
1
Oh, you've got some of the old man's pigheadedness, have you?
2
For all his pigheadedness, Toby had a base, savage cunning.
3
Between Nate's pigheadedness and her responsibilities, she hadn't had much play in her life.
4
Gee, labor is unrestful... and gee, the pigheadedness of bosses!
5
I could still recall the words she had used, 'selfishness' and 'pigheadedness' were merely two.
6
That, miss, is what comes from your pigheadedness.
7
Whatever else may be true of you, you do things your own way, with a refreshingly self-assured pigheadedness.
8
Also, aside from a few obviously minor idiosyncrasies-myoccasional chauvinism, my pigheadedness, my faltering career- Iamfairly irresistible.
9
You know, Underhill, confidence and pigheadedness are not even connected by marriage; much less are they blood relations.
10
But it's not girls that are their undoing, it's their own pigheadedness, insistence on independence, and implacable, infuriating willfulness.
11
I have convicted you of error at least half a dozen times, and not to confess it is mere pigheadedness.
12
Blunt and difficult to lead, not out of hardness of heart or obstinate pigheadedness, but as Burns has put it:
13
It was pure pigheadedness.
14
"That I am poor," he went on presently, "is the result of my own pigheadedness.
15
"Oh, all right," I said, knowing that my stubborn streak was equaled only by Rick Townsend's own pigheadedness.
16
Oh, you've got some of the old man's pigheadedness, have you?
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