pig-headed
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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
He wasn’t violent or aggressive, but he was pig-headed.
From The Guardian • Sep. 24, 2019
"It's so foolish of the bullies to punish the charities. Totally pig-headed and stupid."
From Salon • Jun. 5, 2019
So begins the first line of dialogue in the comic, placed in a thought bubble above the head of a pig-headed, midget-bodied figure in a Spider-Man costume.
From Slate • Dec. 18, 2018
But she was neither doctrinaire, nor blind, nor pig-headed, nor pharisaic, nor jealous, nor scheming; but wise, brave, truthful, upright, and independent.
From Harriet Martineau by Miller, Florence Fenwick
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