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Meanings of tenacious in English
Portuguese
tenaz Stubbornly unyielding.
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Usage of tenacious in English
1
S: And most surely he is tenacious in the love of wealth.
2
Thereafter he was to trust the silent and tenacious general through everything.
3
The Latin race has never been tenacious either in politics or commerce.
4
None of the animals of the Phoca genus are tenacious of life.
5
The cause of denominationalism is the tenacious clinging to faith and doctrines.
6
An enquiring and tenacious mind is, he reckons, essential for the role.
7
We were all, including his most tenacious critics, lost in admiring awe.
8
To continue, people of unsound mind are remarkably tenacious of their ideas.
9
The habit of self-deceit is as insidious and tenacious as any vice.
10
Both Ludlam and Waters were highly regarded, tenacious champions of their portfolios.
11
The Umbrian mountaineers are spleenful, tenacious of a grudge and ferociously acrimonious.
12
All this enabled the tenacious Alfred to carry out a deeply-cherished design.
13
To their despondent-looking trousers the blue tenacious prairie mud clung like glue.
14
The wolf was a tenacious fellow, and he struggled desperately to rise.
15
Still, form is a delusion of tenacious hold upon the human mind.
16
He has had enough to cure the most tenacious man of life.
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