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

Perhaps it had cost Miss Miggs a good deal, too; only Miss Miggs was the sort of obstinate person who never does or will acknowledge that she is wrong.

From Ruth Fielding Down in Dixie Great Times in the Land of Cotton by Emerson, Alice B.

According to one dictionary, it also used to mean an imp or small, obstinate person.

From My Life and My Efforts by Olesch, Gunther

"I am not giving up—on the contrary, I am only beginning to fight," I assured her, paraphrasing General Grant, or some other obstinate person.

From The Shadow World by Garland, Hamlin