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The sulky mulishness of many a Great American Man has long been kept decorously half-secret with the invocation of code words like uncompromising and choleric.

From Slate • Dec. 21, 2018

According to Ms. Rubin’s research, Questioners have other charming weaknesses in addition to a certain mulishness about deadlines.

From New York Times • Oct. 7, 2017

We then bemoan their mulishness and sly ways, as they avoid the stick and do backroom deals with the carrot-holder.

From The Guardian • Jul. 10, 2017

He is the laureate of bridling, and “Indignation,” published in 2008, is as much a study in mulishness as “Portnoy’s Complaint,” from 1969.

From The New Yorker • Jul. 22, 2016

His persistence in the face of mulishness was astounding.

From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath