Example Sentences

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For all that, Iain Duncan Smith tramps on without a thought of changing his ways: a character study in destructive pig-headedness.

From The Guardian • Jun. 28, 2014

Ironically, the immediate budget outlook has improved despite - or perhaps because of - Congress' pig-headedness.

From Reuters • Jul. 28, 2013

The sport is dogged by incompetence and pig-headedness.

From The Guardian • Aug. 12, 2012

But Ned is bested this week in the category of making trouble for one's self through pig-headedness: yes, friends, we must pour out a forty of mead for our dead homie Viserys.

From Time • May 23, 2011

But if a quick temper was Roger's besetting sin, pig-headedness was Ernest's.

From The Forbidden Trail by Morrow, Honoré