obstinate person

Example Sentences

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But he added, he is "a pretty obstinate person".

From BBC • Apr. 14, 2024

Then again, he had always been a pretty obstinate person, so this wasn’t a big change in their relationship.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 1, 2018

"In reality, you are the most obstinate person I know—you can never let a subject alone—you never know when you're beaten."

From Sir George Tressady — Volume I by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.

For that she sometimes hated him—since no one detests stubbornness so much as an obstinate person.

From The Lookout Man by Bower, B. M.

Gidi Mavunga, quite beyond self-control, sprang up, and declared that, if the Mundele would not follow him, that obstinate person might remain behind.

From Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 2 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir