obstinate
Example Sentences
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Her critical “confidence . . . is thrillingly anachronistic: obstinate, sure, but warming, too.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 26, 2025
While the central meaning of all this has yet to be revealed, Seehorn’s performance of Carol’s obstinate loneliness is wrenchingly genuine to anyone who has ever felt alone in a sea of smiling strangers.
From Salon • Dec. 17, 2025
But he added, he is "a pretty obstinate person".
From BBC • Apr. 14, 2024
Maybe she was too obstinate or self-destructive; maybe her vision was a tad too strange for middle-of-the-road record-buyers in the early ’70s.
From New York Times • Apr. 12, 2024
Song Po-po said that he had always been stubborn, and since his son-in-law had been executed as a counterrevolutionary, he had become even more obstinate and solitary.
From "Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution" by Ji-li Jiang
Vocabulary lists containing obstinate
The SAT: Words to Capture Tone, List 4
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