Synonym: headstrong, obstinate, stubborn, willful. Similar words: doggedly, rigged, ragged, dog, dogma, groggy, dogmatic, logging. Meaning: ['dɒgɪd] adj. stubbornly unyielding.
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61. By dint of their dogged determination and desire for public recognition, they united the shipping interests in London.
62. Clinton also remains dogged by his avoidance of the draft three decades ago.
63. But Rambus has been dogged by problems-not least buggy chipsets, high prices and questionable performance.
64. Character, narrative, plot - only a dogged, dull-witted plodder like Malcolm Lodgebury bothers with that sort of stuff now.
65. This plan was dogged by misfortune and the loss of the plates on a trip to London was never rectified.
66. She was swamped by a wave of impotent anger at and violent dislike for the man whose dogged persistence bordered on persecution.
67. He had dogged determination and was of undeviating rectitude, although this did not relate to any well-defined religious beliefs.
68. Tsongas was dogged also by questions about whether the cancer that drove him from office was really cured.
69. Predictably, the law practice has caused Brown to be dogged by bad press.
70. What could be worse than to be dogged by all that stuff?
71. It laid to rest the charges of unreliability and less-than-advertised performance that have long dogged the Pentagon.
72. Even so, cleverness and dogged determination were not always appreciated.
73. His dogged refusal to countenance devaluation ensures the economic failure of a future Labour government.
74. As has dogged the fate of any political candidate I have favoured for any office or position, he was unsuccessful.
75. Persistent colds, coughs and a temperature have dogged her for the last year.
76. So it would take more years of dogged detective work by a handful of investigators to connect the dots.
77. All these advances have been real, even when dogged by the ills of which I told you.
78. The fifty nine year old singer who'd been dogged by ill health died at his home in Arbroath on Monday.
79. This type of simplistic explanation of primitive societies has dogged Marxist anthropology since Engels's time.
80. He dogged her, begged for the dance, learned to nose open the door of her room.
81. However, there was also another difference, a dogged inner voice insisted: Luke's kisses left scars.
82. Yet Mowbray has been dogged by injuries since he crossed over the border.
83. The heroic all-rounder visited a specialist in London yesterday about a shoulder injury that has dogged him for some weeks.
84. Care management Legal problems have also dogged some innovative experiments within the care management pilots the city is running.
85. Thanks to Swire's optimism, foresight, and dogged determination, the firm's operations were restored.
86. Gladstone was dogged by the problems of Ireland to which his sense of duty drew him.
87. The two great detectives prowled up and down the village street dogged by the two official policemen.
88. Hence also the exaggerated tribalism, the bullheaded racism of an Alf Garnett,(sentencedict.com) the dogged male chauvinism of an Andy Capp.
89. He was admired for his dogged determination to learn the language.
90. And under her dogged and insistent pressure he swore to her that he would indeed do as she asked.