Term Gallery logo

Meanings of too tenacious in English

We have no meanings for "too tenacious" in our records yet.
Usage of too tenacious in English
1
She looked set to win but found Crown Witness too tenacious.
News.com.au
2
Even to be too tenacious of those privileges is not absolutely a crime.
Selections from the Speeches and Writings of Edmund Burke
3
The coyote tried to run, but Shasta was too tenacious for his own good.
Riding the storm
4
One party would be too querulous, the other too tenacious.
The Loyalists, Vol. 1-3 / An Historical Novel
5
She withdrew her hand from his somewhat too tenacious clasp.
The Pawns Count
6
He was, however, far too tenacious ever to accept defeat.
Indian Unrest
7
Your brain works heavily, you are too tenacious of your conscience, you are a blunderer.
The Seats of the Mighty, Volume 3
8
She found the tattered garments none too tenacious in their hold to the little, half-naked body.
Lo, Michael!
9
The human need for this kind of deep reading is too tenacious for any new technology to destroy.
The Guardian
10
But his body was too young, too strong, too tenacious of earth to be betrayed by the renegade mind.
Nightfall
11
She was well over seventy: too old for her job in the box office, and too tenacious to be easily removed.
Complete Books of Blood
12
She was a brave and brilliant reporter who was gunned down for being too tenacious in her investigations of organised crime in Ireland.
The Irish Times
13
On the ordinary black soils of the prairie, alfalfa will usually grow reasonably well if underlaid with clay not too distant nor too tenacious.
Clovers and How to Grow Them
14
' Too tenacious.' Barak looked at me seriously.
Sovereign
15
'It is far too formidable, and too tenacious of life, for us rashly to attempt its destruction.
Swiss Family Robinson
16
"Swan's quite right," remarked Valentine; "we are a great deal too tenacious about our belongings.
Fated to Be Free: A Novel
This collocation consists of:
Too tenacious across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common