pig-headedly
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a word derived from
pig-headed.
pig-headedadjectivestupidly stubborn
Example Sentences
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Walker still pig-headedly refused to talk business, thereby cutting off his one important source of outside help.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Clark was advised to kill one or two of the deer, but he pig-headedly refused: and by the beginning of summer they were all dead.
From The Purple Cloud by M. P. (Matthew Phipps) Shiel
They won't be so pig-headedly complacent when they know they have driven him to the bad.
From Psychology A Study Of Mental Life by Robert S. Woodworth
I was just pig-headedly goin' ahead against it, not knowing nothing about the conditions, and it took a lady to show me what they were.
From In the Arena Stories of Political Life by Booth Tarkington
It is so immeasurably more unpleasant to be frightful than to see that which is so, that I'm afraid my sympathies remain rather pig-headedly one-sided.
From The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance by Lucas Malet