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Stubbornly

Stubborn \Stub"born\,

  1. [OE. stoburn, stiborn; probably fr. AS. styb a stu

  2. See Stub.] Firm as a stub or stump; stiff; unbending; unyielding; persistent; hence, unreasonably obstinate in will or opinion; not yielding to reason or persuasion; refractory; harsh; -- said of persons and things; as, stubborn wills; stubborn ore; a stubborn oak; as stubborn as a mule. ``Bow, stubborn knees.''
    --Shak. ``Stubborn attention and more than common application.''
    --Locke. ``Stubborn Stoics.''
    --Swift.

    And I was young and full of ragerie [wantonness] Stubborn and strong, and jolly as a pie.
    --Chaucer.

    These heretics be so stiff and stubborn.
    --Sir T. More.

    Your stubborn usage of the pope.
    --Shak.

    Syn: Obstinate; inflexible; obdurate; headstrong; stiff; hardy; firm; refractory; intractable; rugged; contumacious; heady.

    Usage: Stubborn, Obstinate. Obstinate is used of either active or passive persistence in one's views or conduct, in spite of the wishes of others. Stubborn describes an extreme degree of passive obstinacy. -- Stub"born*ly, adv. -- Stub"born*ness, n.

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stubbornly

adv. In a stubborn manner.

WordNet
stubbornly

adv. in a stubborn unregenerate manner; "she remained stubbornly in the same position" [syn: pig-headedly, obdurately, mulishly, obstinately, cussedly]

Usage examples of "stubbornly".

The only subject he proved stubbornly reticent about was his own past, and Alec quickly learned not to press.

The Germans held stubbornly on to the jaws of the gap at Falaise and Argentan, and, giving priority to their armour, tried to extricate all that they could.

But stubbornly clinging to tradition, he kept to the atlatl, and when the time came, we, far out of range, laid his soldiers down like rows of teocentli.

My audiphones, which would have recorded the sound of any movement, however faint, remained stubbornly silent.

But its people -- mostly Suni Muslim engineers from the failed Trans-African Genetic Reclamation Project -- stubbornly refused to die during the Fall, and ended up terraforming Groombridge Dyson D into a Laplandic tundra world with breathable air and adapted-Old Earth flora and fauna, including wooly mammoths wandering the equatorial highlands.

Subsequently, while still insisting on his innocence, Doil refused to cooperate in any appeal process and stubbornly denied others the right to appeal on his behalf.

Even during the trip I began irrationally but stubbornly to look for Mahlke, while throwing the heather between the tracks after Karthaus, in every suburban station and finally in Central Station, outside the ticket windows, in the crowds of soldiers who had poured out of the furlough trams, in the doorway of the control office, and in the streetcar to Langfuhr.

Glendower states his claims to supernatural powers over and over, while Hotspur stubbornly continues to sneer.

Stubbornly Leeming stuck to the upward curve which, if maintained long enough, would take him well to one side of the approaching attackers and around to the back of them.

The Russian driver continued to skid around to the right, stubbornly staying in front of the pivoting Tiger.

In this emergency, France and the nations under her hegemony, those who had clung so stubbornly, to gold ever since the second revaluation of the franc, were now at a marked advantage, since their money would buy more wheat, more cattle, and more coal.

She also remembered how stubbornly she had refused to accept the change at first, finally giving in after a few failed lessons when she had repeatedly lost control of the rotorcraft and would have crashed had it not been for the instructor and the dual controls of the small trainer.

He continued stubbornly to do his researches into planetary problems in the field, which was why he had come to Skaith and run himself head-on into the Wandsmen.

No doubt the code name, Summerland, had become wildly inappropriate since the berserkers moved in, but that had been the name of the human colony and everyone stubbornly refused to change it.

At 11 months she presented the opposite problem: Now her rhythms were all too stubbornly synchronized, welded to a particular 24-hour pattern that we happened to find oppressive.