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Mulish

adjective
1.
Unreasonably rigid in the face of argument or entreaty or attack.  Synonym: hardheaded.



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"Mulish" Quotes from Famous Books



... are welcome," said Komba, and I thought that I saw his eyes gleam with unholy joy. There followed a pause, during which I explained everything to Stephen, showing that the thing was madness. But here, to my horror, that young man's mulish obstinacy came in. ...
— Allan and the Holy Flower • H. Rider Haggard

... straw hat to fan himself with. It was not only the heat of the day that oppressed him. "Poor, wretched Bernard! But I dare say I should be equally mulish if I were in his shoes. By the by, was he ...
— Nightfall • Anthony Pryde

... passions and caprices, and incapable of hearing the voice of reason." A woman's vanity may be hurt when she finds that she has a husband for whom she has to blush and tremble every time he opens his lips. She may be annoyed at his clownish jealousy, his mulish obstinacy, his incapability of being managed, led, or driven; but she must reflect that there was a time when a little wisdom and reflection on her own part would have prevented her from delivering her heart and her person to so unworthy ...
— Brave Men and Women - Their Struggles, Failures, And Triumphs • O.E. Fuller

... horse. He had the round, deep-chested, big-hearted, well-coupled body of the ideal mountain pony, and his head and neck were true thoroughbred, slender, yet full, with lovely alert ears not too small to be vicious nor too large to be stubborn mulish. And his legs and feet were lovely too, unblemished, sure and firm, with long springy pasterns that made him a wonder of ease ...
— On the Makaloa Mat/Island Tales • Jack London



Words linked to "Mulish" :   mulishness, stubborn, hardheaded, obstinate, unregenerate



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