Similar words: stubborn, stubbornly, stubby, stubble, chubbiness, openness, meanness, keenness. Meaning: ['stʌbə(r)nɪs] n. 1. the trait of being difficult to handle or overcome 2. resolute adherence to your own ideas or desires.
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1 His refusal to talk was simple stubbornness.
2 She's a curious mixture of stubbornness and servility.
3 His stubbornness would try the patience of a saint.
4 Stubbornness was a characteristic he shared with his mother.
5 Matt looked at Hugh and saw the stubbornness in the set of his shoulders.
6 This often comes across as stubbornness and defiance.
7 His arrogance made him virile and masculine, his stubbornness gave him the character to administer his centuries-old responsibilities.
8 Not out of stubbornness or avarice or an egotistical desire to chase longevity records.
9 Her stubbornness on this one issue is holding the whole deal up.
10 Love is often a victim of its stubbornness, sentimentality,(www.Sentencedict.com) irrationality and absurdity. Dr T.P.Chia
11 A man will do more for his stubbornness than for his religion or his country. Edgar Watson Howe
12 It also reveals the stubbornness of bankers who refused to concede their error even after repeated court proceedings.
13 There was a stubbornness in him which would not let this Honourable Colonel in; and he failed to understand it.
14 Alongside stubbornness and negativism, the defiant child has enormous energy and persistence.
15 Stubbornness was an early characteristic, as was the way he would call a halt to any admonishment laid down by Mud.
16 One can not help admiring his stubbornness, if not his greed.
17 This is a moment when pride and stubbornness in the permanent truths of the constitution are not the most helpful qualities.
18 Policy-makers felt general disappointment with the stubbornness of prices in the face of rising unemployment.
19 Stubbornness: Individual willpower, the absolute determination to control drinking or drug use, is exactly what keeps the disease going.
20 The tendency of Down's children towards stubbornness and inflexibility needs to be countered from an early age.
21 Stubbornness, snappiness, or ill temper.
22 I might have become a dangerous man with all that stubbornness and obstinacy built into me.
23 I couldn't tell if his refusal to talk was simple stubbornness.
24 Her rudeness was seen as a charming independence of mind by her familya necessary training in stubbornness.
25 You turned me into a goddamn sadist be-cause of your goddamn stinking country stubbornness.
26 You could tell whether a horse's misbehaviour was due to fear or plain stubbornness.
27 The merits of the case appear to have left little justification for two decades of expensive stubbornness.
28 Two more were spurred into it through outright rebellion against their mothers' ideas, with more than a touch of stubbornness.
29 By midsummer 1953, all attempts to negotiate a settlement of the oil crisis had foundered on Mossadeqs stubbornness.
30 Don't be victimized by negative emotions and thinking. Don't be handicapped by stubbornness and inflexibility. Dr T.P.Chia
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