Shape designed to represent obstinacy

Usage examples of pigheadedness.

In the country towns, like Hexham, or the smaller places like Allendale Town, or Gorbridge, here it was you found the die-hards and all that went with die-hards, pigheadedness, superstitions, and the deeper you went into the country roundabout the stronger the superstitions.

She knew her journalism degree was rusty, thanks to Bruces pigheadedness and his insistence that he wear the pants in the family.

It also sounded to Charlotte like a pack of lies: a refusal to cooperate, or even to acknowledge the problem, whose pigheadedness would not have been out of place in the fake personality of a low-grade sloth.

Alex is a bit of a control freak, and has always been afraid of losing Maggie, but he ends up driving her away all the same with his pigheadedness and eventual abuse.

It became my credo, the central theme of my life, but if it had not been for the intolerance and pigheadedness I exhibited with such grandiosity in those years and the weird sideburns and holier-than-thou attitude that I paraded around with, I would have entered into my maturity as uninterested in the world of ideas as any other Southerner.

I don't know whether such a belief today is best ascribed to ignorance of history, sclerotic dogmatism, unhealthy love of Malthus, or simple pigheadedness, but it is evidently a hardy perennial in human calculation.