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obstinately
adverb as in stubbornly
Strong matches
Weak matches
- bullheadedly
- contumaciously
- determinedly
- doggedly
- firmly
- fixedly
- headstrongly
- indomitably
- inflexibly
- intractably
- opinionatedly
- persistently
- pertinaciously
- pigheadedly
- recalcitrantly
- resistantly
- resolutely
- resolvedly
- staunchly
- steadfastly
- stolidly
- tenaciously
- unamenably
- unflinchingly
- unimpressibly
- unreasonably
- unreasoningly
- unrelentingly
- unwaveringly
- unyieldingly
- willfully
Example Sentences
Specifically, the right flank of House Republicans has been obstinately huffy as usual since Congress returned.
What’s frightening about these sequential Trumpian performances of above-the-law-ness, is that as they accrue, he is trained to both believe even more obstinately that the law is what he says it is, and to attempt to push the boundaries ever further the next time.
It’s a relatively interesting perspective to use in considering a monarch who remained obstinately inscrutable from her coronation in 1953 to her death in 2022, at 96.
Those changes, however technical sounding, would be profound: A single obstinately conservative county could block an amendment from getting onto the ballot statewide.
President Furio Truzzi told The Associated Press, however, that despite the overall decreases, pasta prices are obstinately high in some cities and that the group was still considering targeted strikes later this summer.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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