obstinacy - use in sentences

Adjective modifier

  • such: Oxfam warned that such obstinacy from the EU and the resultant standoff between major trading powers would ultimately harm developing countries.
  • great: I urged him to throw away his mystics; but he adhered to them with the greater obstinacy.
  • sheer: Of course, Bloom can also accomplish his goal by sheer obstinacy.
  • own: The defendants cannot rely on their own obstinacy to assert that mediation had no reasonable prospect of success.
  • mulish: The Fall had a mulish obstinacy, the bass-heavy clutter and intricate guitar designs backed up by drums which stomp and bray viciously.
  • pig-headed: In one of the best examples I can recall of Brian's pig-headed obstinacy, he would not get off.

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