tenacious
adjective
Origin of tenacious
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stubborn, dogged, steadfast, tough, resolute, forceful, persistent, strong-willed, unswerving, determined, stout, spunky, staunch, relentless, cohesive, retentive, adamant, bound, clinging, coherentExamples from the Web for tenacious
Contemporary Examples of tenacious
For half a century, Ferencz, a tenacious 95-year-old, has been on his own Lemkin-esque campaign.
But tenacious Albanian partisans kept reinserting the claim.
Ware, a tenacious pass-rusher, is a 7-time Pro Bowler and the Cowboys all-time leader in sacks, with 117 in nine seasons.
Attention all you Darwinists still battling the tenacious Creationists (and losing miserably)!
“The only way to get justice is to patient and persistent and tenacious,” Browder says.
Historical Examples of tenacious
He knew that here was a bold and tenacious spirit, kin to that of Grant.
The Rock of ChickamaugaJoseph A. Altsheler
My mother's imagination was as vivacious, but not as tenacious as my own.
Tales And Novels, Volume 9 (of 10)Maria Edgeworth
She seldom showed any anger; but when she did it was tenacious, and slow to be appeased.
The Fat and the ThinEmile Zola
Ganymede was of a tenacious mettle, and of this he now afforded proof.
Bardelys the MagnificentRafael Sabatini
To the man who had done him some service, of tenacious memory.
AgesilausXenophon