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Definition of Pigheadedly
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pigheadedly
Literary usage of Pigheadedly
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Dramatic Opinions and Essays: With an Apology by Bernard Shaw (1907)
"As a matter of fact, it is just as often as not most pigheadedly unpractical.
For example, electric telegraphy, telephony and traction are invented, ..."
2. Studies in French Education from Rabelais to Rousseau by Geraldine Emma Hodgson (1908)
"... is moderate : " After all, it is futile to insist pigheadedly on trying to
make children like certain excellent people whose exteriors are unattractive. ..."
3. Reports of Cases in Criminal Law Argued and Determined in All the Courts in by Edward William Cox (1882)
"... I mean to say, did not pigheadedly, pertinaciously, and obstinately perhaps,
persuade himself of the matter, for which he had no reasonable grounds, ..."
4. Naval Courts Martial by David Hannay (1914)
"By adhering even pigheadedly and pedantically to the letter, they did what was
probably justice. Here again a Court had shown itself resolved to resist ..."
5. James Bowdoin and the Patriot Philosophers by Frank Edward Manuel (2004)
"While Bowdoin pigheadedly tried to apply the sound practices of a private commercial
establishment to the economy of a state deeply scarred by the war and ..."
6. The Diplomatic Review (1881)
"Until now English finance has systematically disbelieved Turkey, and pigheadedly
believed in Galata, and only through Galata has it lent money to Turkey. ..."
7. Aspects of Pessimism by Robert Mark Wenley (1894)
"history; by a reconsideration of the development of idealism, which Schopenhauer
had " pigheadedly" ignored; and hy a transfiguration of Schopenhauer's ..."
8. My Four Years in Germany by James Watson Gerard (1917)
"The German Vice-Chancellor and head of the Department of the Interior, Delbruck,
put an export prohibition on cyanide early in the war; and most pigheadedly ..."
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