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mulish::adjective | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | hardheaded |
| Derivation | mulishness |
Examples of mulish
mulish
Will this property's mulish, multicoated past resist our optimistic new paint-thinners?
From the timesunion.com
Bill Clinton and Boutros Boutros-Ghali poking each other like palookas too mulish to know better.
From the time.com
Gobble, 27, turns mulish at the mention of those ailments.
From the kansas.com
Movie critics by nature are solitary, mulish creatures, addicted to individuality, holding to their own recalcitrant opinions.
From the time.com
There is a segment of the fan base belligerent over Tuberville's mulish refusal to at least try Kodi Burns against Mississippi State.
From the al.com
Mr Bashir's inflammatory rhetoric and often mulish resistance to humanitarian pleading have made Sudan a pariah, at least in the West.
From the economist.com
Hannon noted that her mulish antics have so far been confined to Newmarket and plans to give her a session of stalls training at a racecourse this week.
From the guardian.co.uk
Where Sayers gorges the reader with information about Lord Peter's mulish family and elegant tastes, Allingham drops only a few facts per book.
From the time.com
For one thing, it isn't snappy and for another, the fundamental points of physics that differentiate it from an airship are beyond the grasp of most mulish lay people.
From the telegraph.co.uk
- Hardheaded: unreasonably rigid in the face of argument or entreaty or attack
- (mulishly) stubbornly: in a stubborn unregenerate manner; "she remained stubbornly in the same position"
- (mulishness) stubbornness: the trait of being difficult to handle or overcome
- Characteristic of a mule; stubborn, obstinate, or intractable
- (mulishly) In a mulish manner
