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Meanings of pigheadedness in English
Catalan
caparrudesa Resolute adherence to your own ideas or desires.
Synonyms
Examples for "obstinacy"
Examples for "obstinacy"
1
There is something awful in the obstinacy of the assaults upon us.
2
The general's patience was gradually vanishing in the face of such obstinacy.
3
That, and a good portion of obstinacy, he thought with a smile.
4
Wherever they passed, there did the fight augment in obstinacy and fury.
5
The girl comprehended without hearing, and shook her head in sullen obstinacy.
1
The natural stubbornness on which he had counted hardened in her face.
2
Don't think I am not aware of the source of your stubbornness.
3
Some call this principle, a kind of stubbornness the hard left admire.
4
I've got a bit of faith in the stubbornness of human nature.
5
But he doesn't say this; he has a stubbornness to match hers.
1
Then he thought it up, and we break through his bullheadedness.
2
Do you know what you've done with your bullheadedness?
3
Presson understood better, but could not forgive the bullheadedness that seemed to be wrecking their political plans.
4
The understaffing of the reconstruction and the lack of post-combat planning wasn't the result merely of Donald Rumsfeld's bullheadedness.
5
Other was plain, human bullheadedness.
1
And Jennie's cocky obstinance indicated she was aware of it.
2
Ferrell's Lars is a character whose obstinance makes it hard to root for him.
3
But the urgency outside has only met a wall of politics and obstinance inside the convention centre.
4
Her eyes were glittery with renewed obstinance.
1
It needs much discipline and watchfulness; it excludes all self-will and selfishness.
2
Johnson asserted the power of intellect and self-will over mind and body.
3
There is music in heaven, because in music there is no self-will.
4
In this case, the bondage of self-will is found to be absolute.
5
There was neither self-will, perverseness, nor antagonism, in this; but paralysis instead.
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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Frequent collocations
Pigheadedness through the time