Synonym: dogged, dour, tenacious, unyielding. Similar words: pertinacity, tenacious, pugnacious, spacious, gracious, salacious, sagacious, rapacious. Meaning: adj. stubbornly unyielding.
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1. Like most successful politicians, she is pertinacious and single-minded in the pursuit of her goals.
2. But pupils of the more pertinacious sort profited greatly from his teaching and his company.
3. Questions buzzed in his head like pertinacious bees.
4. Objective To study the etiology of pertinacious chronic cough in children.
5. I can affirm that he is tenacious and pertinacious as are few.
6. She is the most vocal and pertinacious of all the critics of the policy.
7. His style of argument in meetings is not so much aggressive as pertinacious.
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8. He had been driven into a corner by the pertinacious ingenuity of Miss French.
9. The ideas of my friend Watson, though limited are exceedingly pertinacious.
10. Whatever I did, that idea would bother me: it was so tiresomely pertinacious that I resolved on requesting leave to go to Wuthering Heights, and assist in the last duties to the dead.
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