What is "mulish"

Usage examples of "mulish".

Miss Gubbins, with a mulish look in her eye, was preparing to expostulate, Miss de Vine caught sight of the English tutor and excused herself.

Alain looked up to see the sergeant draw the girl closer against him, but Withi had a mulish look on her face now, and she shoved him away.

Alverstoke ball than she declared, looking as mulish as such a lovely, gentle creature could, that she disliked every one of the expensive dresses offered by the fashionable modiste to whose discreetly elegant premises in Bruton Street Alverstoke had directed Frederica.

For one thing, men tended to be mulish idiots when it came to things like honor and duels, and she rather doubted that either Anthony or Simon would appreciate her interference.

To Gorgidas, who was directly in back of the tribune Marcus seemed like Aias battling Hektor in the Iliadoutmatched, baffled, but too mulish to yield an inch except by dying.

The general tone was angry for a change, which beat tired or mulish from Mike's point of view.

Washington Faulconer was already feeling cheated because his stay in Gordonsville had been cut short, but now all the bitterness over his traitor son and his resentments over Starbuck and the mulish manner in which the Brigade reacted to his simplest orders fed the bitter torrent.

A kind of mulish huffiness in his expression made him look ridiculous and unlikeable.