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obstinacy
noun as in stubbornness
Strong matches
Example Sentences
Trump’s obstinacy continued for weeks, culminating with Jan. 6, 2021, when Trump urged on an angry mob that stormed the Capitol in an attempt to halt the election certification.
Odenkirk was one of several perfectly cast actors in the episode, a force capable of matching Bernthal’s intensity and obstinacy.
In a 17-page order, Judge Chushcoff said the employee “demonstrated obstinacy in her search” that led the State Patrol to move to discipline her; however, Loftis said the employee “subsequently left our employ.”
At this point I should confess I have a perverse patience for the U.S. tax code, not least because I marvel at the obstinacy of its idiom.
In reality, Mike Johnson probably recognized a lot of what he saw in New York’s 3rd: A new-to-politics candidate with red flags in their past who gets caught lying a lot; big donors staying on the sidelines because they don’t trust the new generation of Republican leaders; the ceding of middle ground on basic issues to Democrats because of conspiratorial thinking and a collective insistence on valorizing partisan hostility and obstinacy.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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