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obduracy::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | adamance, unyieldingness |
| Type of | firmness, firmness of purpose, resoluteness, resolution, resolve |
Examples of obduracy
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The price for her obduracy is being paid now in the rigging of the budget process.
From the dispatchpolitics.com
The price for her obduracy is being paid in the rigging of the budget process.
From the washingtonpost.com
Trying to shout this from the rooftops has been met only by official obduracy.
From the newscientist.com
Chipperfield's Hepworth Gallery has a rock-like obduracy that is anything but.
From the guardian.co.uk
Yet, pressed for examples of council obduracy, ministers resort to anecdote.
From the guardian.co.uk
It seems the Russians were similarly frustrated by North Korean obduracy.
From the edition.cnn.com
The Democrats'top brass blame the party's failings on Republican obduracy and trickery.
From the economist.com
And even Russia and China are now beginning to criticise him obduracy.
From the economist.com
Friendless, it is now paying the price for the Trujillo years of arrogance and obduracy.
From the smh.com.au
- Adamance: resoluteness by virtue of being unyielding and inflexible
- (obdurate) cussed: stubbornly persistent in wrongdoing
- (obdurate) flinty: showing unfeeling resistance to tender feelings; "his flinty gaze"; "the child's misery would move even the most obdurate heart"
- The state of being obdurate, intractable, or stubbornly inflexible
- (obduracies) the 5 mental: ceto-khila (q.v.).
- (obdurate) (adj) - stubborn (person), physically hard or resistant (thing)
- (obdurate) (adj.) unyielding to persuasion or moral influences (The obdurate old man refused to take pity on the kittens.)
- (obdurate) unmoved by feelings of humanity or pity
- Noun - 1. the quality of not easily being moved to pity or sympathy; heardheartedness 2. hardness; unrepentiveness 3. the quality of being obstinate or not quick to give in; stubbornness; inflexibility
