Usage of "stubbornly"

português

In a stubborn unregenerate manner.

Sinônimos

Examples for "obstinately"

But nothing happened; the cows obstinately refused to step down the plank. 
 The French Twins 

Only they were obstinately traveling the wrong road in search of it. 
 Marjorie Dean, College Sophomore 

This the Government obstinately refused to admit; and meanwhile time was passing. 
 The River War: An Account of the Reconquest of the Sudan 

And in spite of her fatigue she obstinately followed the procession afterwards. 
 The Three Cities Trilogy: Lourdes, Volume 5 

In the next place, they were obstinately resolute against all material concessions. 
 An Essay on the Evils of Popular Ignorance 

Somehow they weren't clear enough, and the path remained obdurately in place. 
 The evolutionary void 

He tried again and again, but my pupils remained obdurately small. 
 Without Prejudice 

Cary tried to shake my resolution, but I was obdurately silent. 
 The Lost Naval Papers 

But still she held Mr. Bellingham's arm, obdurately refusing to dance. 
 Doctor Claudius, A True Story 

Ukraine's president Viktor Yanukovych has so far obdurately refused to bow to EU pressure. 
 The Guardian 

And why does this involve you? Tachyon's mouth tightened mulishly. 
 Wild Cards IV: Aces Abroad 

This will teach you what comes of acting mulishly. 
 Original Short Stories — Volume 09 

Protest was unavailing; the lieutenant was mulishly stubborn. 
 Heart of the Sunset 

Or perhaps he was just being mulishly dense? 
 Ashes and bones: an emma fielding mystery 

They are everywhere -circled and dug in, or circling mulishly in search of a crusade. 
 The Guardian 

Alec Stewart, cussedly admirable stalwart though he may have been over the years, is now 40. 
 The Guardian 

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,... 

As someone who still remains at times cussedly loyal to an old manual typewriter, I recoil from such modern and impersonal traits. 
 The Guardian 

"See here, pardner, you act most cussedly like a man keeping watch on me." 
 The Eagle's Heart 

"You needn't be so cussedly offensive, need you?" 
 Two Sides of the Face: Midwinter Tales 

And yet Gordon Brown is pig-headedly pursuing a third runway just to try and prove a political point. 
 The Guardian 

He knows in his heart that the Ministry are pig-headedly wrong, and that we are in the right. 
 In the Valley 

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 

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 

Usage of stubbornly in inglês

But similar problems have dotted the US for years, often lingering stubbornly. 
 The Guardian 

Inflation remained stubbornly above official targets in every month of last year. 
 Reuters 

Years had passed, but the editors remained stubbornly committed to their question. 
 Wired 

That's why oil companies are fighting for it so stubbornly, Poletayev said. 
 Reuters 

Yet in Ohio, despite the intense effort, two different realities stubbornly persist. 
 The Guardian 

The ibis, stubbornly unfinished, its bill still not quite the right shape. 
 The Golem and the Jinni 

The Standard Model still has various problems that stubbornly refuse to cooperate. 
 Wired 

Theresa May has stubbornly, although understandably, tried to plot a middle course. 
 BBC 

Mark needed to breathe very badly now, but he held on stubbornly. 
 Salem’s Lot 

A monstrous 14 repeated itself stubbornly along the gorgeous reach of it. 
 Somewhere in Red Gap 

A baby now was out of the question, she stubbornly reminded herself. 
 The manning grooms: bride on the loose\same time, next year 

Mr Mugabe stubbornly insists that the Zimbabwe currency must not be devalued. 
 The Guardian 

Employment growth is stalling, unemployment is climbing and inflation remains stubbornly high. 
 The Irish Times 

He constantly berates Dan for his stubbornly adventure-gamey way of tackling obstacles. 
 The Guardian 

It was a long wait during which tension stubbornly refused to mount. 
 The Guardian 

The Montenegrins, in the shelter of their trenches, fought stubbornly and tenaciously. 
 The Boy Allies in the Balkan Campaign; Or, the Struggle to Save ... 