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Stubborn and arrogant, having change at top
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pigheaded
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Word definitions for pigheaded in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. obstinate and stupid [syn: bullheaded , bullet-headed ]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also pig-headed ; 1756, "having a head resembling a pig;" 1788 as "obstinate;" see pig (n.) + head (n.). Usually, but not always, figurative.\n\nA pig-headed man must be one, who, like a driven pig, always will do exactly the opposite to what other people ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ The consulate official was being pigheaded about giving us our visas. EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ How could she honestly make this pigheaded man see sense?
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. (context pejorative English) obstinate and stubborn to the point of stupidity.
Usage examples of pigheaded.
Mountjoy was murdered, and the fact that Bing chooses to be pigheaded has not altered my opinion one jot.
There were just no words to adequately express my disgust with either overprotective, pigheaded, domineering man.
That lovely pad of gluteal muscle, the easy availability of the site-my colleague had been dead right and I had been a pigheaded fool.
Big business was king, and Rik had survived only because he was too pigheaded to give up.
The Lewises, now, they are just pigheaded enough that they might go the rest of us one better!
He had been told in baroque detail what an utter, despicable, pathetic, unspeakable, pigheaded, stupid, fool male he was, with elaborations and codas and emendations to spare, before Troublesome said another word.
He was also pigheaded, dogmatic, insensitive, regulation-hedged and so narrowly oriented as to prevent any vestige of imagination or intuitive thinking from coloring his mental processes for a microsecond.
And when Lucern held her like this, she forgot how rude and pigheaded he could be.
Fauns are quite well thought of, actually—probably because they’re so pigheaded that they never know when they’re beaten—and you’re almost jotunn size, so you rate just below pure jotunn.