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Bullet-headed   /bˈʊlət-hˈɛdəd/   Listen
Bullet-headed

adjective
1.
Obstinate and stupid.  Synonyms: bullheaded, pigheaded.
2.
Having a small round head.






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"Bullet-headed" Quotes from Famous Books



... pair followed the constable in uniform, now hurrying ahead to ring for the elevator. The big, bluff, bullet-headed Superintendent was physically well fitted for his responsible position, though he combined with the official demeanor some of the easy-going characteristics of a country squire; but Charles Francois Furneaux ...
— The Strange Case of Mortimer Fenley • Louis Tracy

... Walderhurst would certainly have made him an allowance; but his manner of life had been such as the Marquis had no patience with in men of any class, and especially abhorred in men whom the accident of birth connected with good names. He had not been lavish in his demonstrations of interest in the bullet-headed young man. Osborn's personableness was not of a kind attractive to the unbiassed male observer. Men saw his cruel young jowl and low forehead, and noticed that his eyes were small. He had a good, swaggering military figure to which uniform was becoming, ...
— Emily Fox-Seton - Being The Making of a Marchioness and The Methods of Lady Walderhurst • Frances Hodgson Burnett

... broad-shouldered, bullet-headed man, clean shaven, with close-cropped, bristly hair. He had curiously square hands, with short, squat fingers. He had been head surgeon in one of the Paris hospitals, and had been assigned his present post because of his marvellous quickness ...
— All Roads Lead to Calvary • Jerome K. Jerome



Words linked to "Bullet-headed" :   brachycranial, stubborn, unregenerate, brachycephalic, obstinate, brachycranic



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