obdurately
Example Sentences
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United had to defend obdurately - and at times desperately - in the latter stages, but saw out Courts' fifth victory in six competitive games.
From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2021
When Williams played the first Kansas City Women’s Jazz Festival in 1978, she obdurately declared, “I’m very feminine but I think like a man.”
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 1, 2020
And he obdurately stood in the way of necessary and welcome societal change long after it was otherwise the universal norm.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 18, 2019
Years later, she described being “disappointed, crushed, destroyed” by the double standards of the Dadaist men, who wanted to free women while remaining obdurately patriarchal.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 30, 2018
Despite the defense’s successes in showing the shoddiness of the government’s case, the state was obdurately persistent.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
