bullheadedly

Example Sentences

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You could argue that Lochte knew what he was doing all along—that by being forcefully, bullheadedly himself, he’d either be believed or shrugged off as an idiot.

From The New Yorker • Aug. 19, 2016

The dominant media narrative—even in the above SNL skit, in which Kyle MacLachlan, in character as Cooper, bullheadedly ignores plain-as-day evidence about the killer—was that Twin Peaks was toying with viewers.

From Slate • Nov. 12, 2015

"This is not the case of a horse-and-buggy company bullheadedly insisting that good times are around the corner despite the mass appeal of the automobile," Griesbach wrote.

From Reuters • Mar. 31, 2010

Then, instead of retracting his misstatement�and only running the risk of appearing tongue-tied�he bullheadedly stuck to what he had said.

From Time Magazine Archive

One responsibility of a publisher is to represent the desires of scholars and research librarians as opposed to bullheadedly forcing them into areas they would not choose to enter.

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