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pig-headedness

  • a word derived from pig-headed.
    pig-headed
    adjective
    stupidly stubborn

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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

The only real obstacle is your father's pig-headedness on all matters in which money enters.

From Spring Days by George (George Augustus) Moore

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