pig-headed
adjective
stupidly stubborn
pig-headedness
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a word derived from
pig-headed.
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
A pig-headed man," she said to herself, as her needle prodded steadily in and out; "a pig-headed man, with a pig-headedness of sixteen years' standing.
From The Crux by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
