mulish
Example Sentences
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Freud’s preoccupations no longer look eccentric or mulish.
From Washington Post • Oct. 6, 2022
This grass-colored liqueur, with its bracing, vegetal taste and mulish kick, called Chartreuse after the Carthusian brothers of your order, is the closest thing you’ll ever experience to a magic potion.
From Seattle Times • Apr. 6, 2022
Maybe they weren’t just being mulish but were just tired.
From Washington Times • May 5, 2021
And still fashion week keeps its mulish course, a carousel spinning madly.
From New York Times • Feb. 21, 2018
There was a peculiar hilarity in Longstreet’s breast, the mulish foolish hungry feeling you get just before an assault.
From "The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War" by Michael Shaara
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