mulish

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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

In 1969, Norman Mailer and Jimmy Breslin ran a political campaign largely devoted to the idea of Gotham’s sovereignty — with the mulish insistence that the city get custody of the name “New York.”

From New York Times • Dec. 8, 2017

By contrast, Ruby Thai Kitchen, with its mulish reliance on sweet, sad, suburban interpretations of Southeast Asian cooking, must be aware of its imminent extinction daily.

From Washington Post • Feb. 26, 2015

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