Stubbornly persistent in wrongdoing.
Showing unfeeling resistance to tender feelings.
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Examples for "obstinate "
Examples for "obstinate "
1 In fact, at the time, I thought he was simply being obstinate .
2 The contest was obstinate , and terminated in the death of the challenger.
3 She was not wilful; she was not obstinate ; she gave him affection.
4 Now they thought her obstinate refusal was a result of Scobie's influence.
5 On this issue the dispute in the convention was obstinate and irreconcilable.
1 An unrepentant Ginsberg maintained to the end that state censorship degrades democracy.
2 But asked whether invading Iraq was a mistake Blair was strikingly unrepentant .
3 He was unrepentant , and ended up 'evading justice' over the fatal accident.
4 An unrepentant Andre Slade shows journalists why blacks and whites are different.
5 In the aftermath of the competition in Germany, Pettersen was utterly unrepentant .
1 Then the cussed place ran out the moment the money was paid.
2 I've been cussed from one end of the trip to the other.
3 I laid back and cussed and kicked till I saw blood, certain.
4 He then flew into a rage, and cussed me and my judgment.
5 Every cussed bit of influence is going to be used against you.
1 The governor was obdurate in his decision to stick in the race.
2 But the French Court was obdurate ; it would not furnish a penny.
3 She changes her mind; she is willing where before she was obdurate .
4 But her villa looks very dark; its closed windows are very obdurate .
5 The surface of his paintings is wall-like in itself: solid, obdurate , opaque.
6 The Counsellors were admitted, but the Queen was as obdurate as ever.
7 The Winnebagos saw him in a new mood to-day, stern, inflexible, obdurate .
8 Mr. Farleigh remained a gray, faintly glistening, obdurate oak made of stone.
9 Purposely he hesitated and haggled over the amount, but Paulvitch was obdurate .
10 The master appeared obdurate , and we had gone too far to recede.
11 There is the obdurate emptiness of dreams, whose lights are only imaginary.
12 Inasmuch as she was obdurate , the king ordered her to be executed.
13 The Lieutenant endeavoured to persuade him to surrender, but he was obdurate .
14 Sadly and silently I turned from that obdurate man and walked forward.
15 A little lever that had hitherto been obdurate now confessed itself mobile.
16 By moving exhortations to virtue, she softened and converted several obdurate sinners.
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