All 8 Uses of
obstinate
in
Hard Times
- The speaker's obstinate carriage, square coat, square legs, square shoulders, — nay, his very neckcloth, trained to take him by the throat with an unaccommodating grasp, like a stubborn fact, as it was, — all helped the emphasis.†
Chpt 1.1
- I am as obstinate as one, I am more stupid than one, I get as much pleasure as one, and I should like to kick like one.'†
Chpt 1.8
- Yes, I do!' cried Mr. Bounderby, shaking his head with obstinate cunning.†
Chpt 1.11
- 'Coketown, sir,' said Bounderby, obstinately taking a chair, 'is not the kind of place you have been accustomed to.†
Chpt 2.2
- But if I can't — or if I should, by infirmity of nature, be obstinate — and won't — ' 'It is still true.†
Chpt 3.2
- 'I don't see it at all, sir,' returned the obstinate Bounderby.†
Chpt 3.3
- 'I don't understand you, yet,' said Bounderby, with determined obstinacy, 'and therefore I won't make any promises.'†
Chpt 3.3
- refuses for some obstinate reason or other to say anything at all about those statements
Chpt 3.4 *obstinate = stubbornly unyielding to other's wishes
Definition:
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(obstinate) stubbornly not doing what others want