obstinacy in English
his reputation for obstinacy
Use "obstinacy" in a sentence
1. His obstinacy drives me mad!
2. His obstinacy was irritating.
3. I resisted the proposal with obstinacy.
4. Sheer obstinacy prevented her from apologizing.
5. -The Acemetic Monks; their obstinacy
6. Consider it a child's obstinacy.
7. It is a very accountable obstinacy.
8. 3 It is a very accountable obstinacy.
9. The only thing humanity really Admires is obstinacy.
10. He has a streak of obstinacy in him.
11. -The Acemetic Monks; their obstinacy..87 CHAPTER VII
12. He bitted the file to English obstinacy and broke his teeth.
13. He met the pressing requests of his neighbours with a gentle obstinacy.
14. In his obstinacy Hung - chien refused to eat anything the Chous had sent.
15. Try as I would, I could not reason him out of his obstinacy.
16. His obstinacy was bruited about the country - side, and caused great consternation.
17. Synonyms for Cussedness include obstinacy, perversity, pigheadedness, stubbornness, willfulness, cantankerousness, nastiness, orneriness, contrariness and
18. Antonyms for Amenability include doggedness, fixedness, headstrongness, imperviousness, obduracy, obstinacy, self-willedness, single-mindedness, steadfastness and
19. I might have become a dangerous man with all that stubbornness and obstinacy built into me.
20. But it was bigoted political obstinacy, not courage, which induced him to refuse to devalue the pound.
21. A cross with a bull - dog has affected for many generations the courage and obstinacy of greyhounds.
22. A stickler for realism, he was frustrated by an obstinacy in his models as strong as his own.
23. Vladek in old age has lost the resilient bounce, if not the courage and obstinacy of his youth.
24. But it was bigoted political obstinacy, not courage,(Sentencedict.com) which induced him to refuse to devalue the pound.
25. 22 I might have become a dangerous man with all that stubbornness and obstinacy built into me.
26. 9 A stickler for realism, he was frustrated by an obstinacy in his models as strong as his own.
27. He repeated Cosette's name for whole nights in the melancholy loquacity of fever, and with the sombre obstinacy of agony.
28. He was irritated, the chief inspector decided, by her obstinacy, and hovered on the edge of asking her again.
29. This is an improved experiment. The experiment used integrated hall switch sensor and Jonly balance in measuring obstinacy modulus, offered a method of calculating the spring efficiency mass.
30. But there’s also a Cussedness and obstinacy to him, a headstrong quality in the way he sticks to his principles that make Newton seem like the new …
31. The religious of Port-Royal were especially conspicuous for their obstinacy, and the Archbishop of Paris, after several fruitless admonitions, was forced to debar them from receiving the sacraments.
32. EVERY EPISODE OF GILMORE GIRLS, RANKED CONSTANCE GRADY OCTOBER 6, 2020 VOX This unreasoning, feminine obstinacy so wrought upon him that he permitted himself a smile and a lapse into irony and Banter.
33. 3 Not “to make it new” or rather in the case of Conceptualisms “to make it [not] new”: Ezra Pound’s words from the turn of the 20 th century indeed reverberate with a disquieting obstinacy
34. “Backbiting is censured and despised by the reason, heart, humanity, conscience, human nature, and social and national solidarity.”(17) “Backbiting is the vile weapon most commonly used by the people of enmity, envy, and obstinacy.”(18)
35. Youth enters the world with very happy prejudices in her own favor. She imagines herself not only certain of accomplishing every adventure, but of obtaining those rewards which the accomplishment may deserve. She is not easily persuaded to believe that the force of merit can be resisted by obstinacy and avarice,(sentencedict .com) or its luster darkened by envy and malignity. Samuel Johnson