pertinaciously
- a word derived from pertinacious.
Example Sentences
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“Miss Eyre, I repeat it, you can leave me. How often am I to say the same thing? Why do you remain pertinaciously perched on my knee, when I have given you notice to quit?”
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
But our host is absent, your Grace," replied the Provost pertinaciously; "and neither he nor any one else, but your Grace's friends present, need know anything at all of the matter.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 21 by Leighton, Alexander
And, if ill-trained, how pertinaciously it will refuse to do anything it ought!
From Household Education by Martineau, Harriet
How can you cling so pertinaciously to this fancy, or attach such importance to a mere word?
From Fickle Fortune by Elisabeth Burstenbinder (AKA E. Werner)
Ellis's words returned to her again and again so pertinaciously, that she could not break from them.
From Home Influence A Tale for Mothers and Daughters by Aguilar, Grace
