pig-headed
Britishadjective
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Maas succeeded where more than 99% failed by being smart, sometimes pig-headed and, in the end, lucky.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 19, 2024
Even a stubborn, pig-headed jackass like Mr. Henderson acknowledges that Magaro and Orion Lee have great chemistry together.
From Slate ● Dec. 29, 2020
And we should embrace that pig-headed unwillingness to give up, even when it seems like giving up is the only option.
From Salon ● Sep. 19, 2020
There is even one infamous episode – Amy’s Baking Company – where the husband-and-wife proprietors are so pig-headed that Ramsay gives up halfway through and exits for good.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 26, 2017
"Yo're showing even more than yore usual amount of pig-headed ignorance to-day," Hopalong grumbled.
From Hopalong Cassidy by Mulford, Clarence E.
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