pig-headed
Example Sentences
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“You have to adjust. Don’t be pig-headed and say we’re just going to keep doing X, Y and Z because it was good for us with the group a year ago or two years ago.”
From Seattle Times • Jan. 13, 2021
Even a stubborn, pig-headed jackass like Mr. Henderson acknowledges that Magaro and Orion Lee have great chemistry together.
From Slate • Dec. 29, 2020
And we should embrace that pig-headed unwillingness to give up, even when it seems like giving up is the only option.
From Salon • Sep. 19, 2020
In the film, Phogat is shown as a towering figure who combines patriarchal autocracy with tender affection bordering on sentimentalism: he is totally pig-headed, and unrelenting in his fanatical determination that his girls must excel.
From The Guardian • Jan. 21, 2017
A pig-headed administration does unconsciously help when, out of its own excesses, a divine discontent is bred.
From A Crooked Mile by Onions, Oliver [pseud.]
