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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

Such a philosophy, obsessed by a single idea, unrestrained by any consideration for other and equally important factors of truth, regardless of all other claims, pushes its idea pig-headedly to its logical extreme.

From A Critical History of Greek Philosophy by Stace, W. T. (Walter Terence)

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 Shiel, M. P. (Matthew Phipps)

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 Tarkington, Booth

He knows in his heart that the Ministry are pig-headedly wrong, and that we are in the right.

From In the Valley by Frederic, Harold