Sample Sentences for
obstinate
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    Of course, Baba refused, and everyone shook their heads in dismay at his obstinate ways.  (source)
    obstinate = stubbornly unyielding to other's wishes
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    You know how obstinate men are when they get their backs up.  (source)
    obstinate = stubborn
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    He did his work in the same slow obstinate way as he had done it in Jones's time, never shirking and never volunteering for extra work either.  (source)
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    There is nothing more to do except to pray and I haven't much hope that that'll do much good because, Marilla, I do not believe that God Himself can do very much with such an obstinate person as Mrs. Barry.  (source)
    obstinate = stubbornly unyielding to other's wishes
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    After the expedition, Neal Beidleman pointed out that if Andy's regulator had become fouled with ice, the gauge might have registered empty even though the canisters were full, which would explain his bizarre obstinacy.  (source)
    obstinacy = stubbornness
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    "I want the gum!" Violet said obstinately.  (source)
    obstinately = stubbornly
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    " Errol Morris, film documentarian, who appears in this book, shares the obstinancy of Cameron: "Truth is not relative.... It may be elusive or hidden.†  (source)
    unconventional spelling: Obstinacy is a more common spelling.
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    The intricate obstinacies of village mullahs opposed to educating girls were invisible from this altitude, Mortenson thought.†  (source)
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    ...but he was as obstinate as a mule,  (source)
    obstinate = stubbornly unyielding to other's wishes
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    a look of relentless obstinacy crept into the habitually lazy blue eyes.  (source)
    obstinacy = the trait of being stubborn in not doing what others want
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    "I'll do as I choose and go as I please," said Bilbo obstinately.  (source)
    obstinately = stubbornly
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    In light of their obstinancy, I called Jaime in and told him to get ready to accompany me to the cemetery to steal Rosa's body.†  (source)
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    To acquire languages, departed or living in spite of such obstinacies as he now knew them inherently to possess, was a herculean performance which gradually led him on to a greater interest in it than in the presupposed patent process.†  (source)
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