Pertinacious Definition

Pertinacious Sentence Examples

• Apart from his pertinacious fight for economy Hume was not always fortunate in his political activity.

• The Cabetes, who possessed the soil, were fierce and pertinacious; and, assisted by the French, who traded to that coast, Coelho had to gain by inches what was granted him by leagues.

• But it was on the part of the Dutch that the most skilful and pertinacious efforts were made for securing a footing in Brazil; and they alone of all the rivals of the Portuguese have left traces of their presence in the national spirit and institutions of Brazil.

• Extremely pertinacious in this respect, the poet went on attempting to storm the theatre, with assault upon assault, all practically failures until the seventh and last, which was unfortunately posthumous.

• She would offer them to people with her politely pertinacious manner and upper-middle-class accent and invariably had good sales.