Adjective : pigheaded resistance. From Dictionary.com.
( "pigheadedness" Aunt Emmeline calls it!) and committees drive me daft. From Wordnik.com. [The Lady of the Basement Flat] Reference
You're being foolish now out of sheer pigheadedness. From Wordnik.com. [Is money illegal?] Reference
Some would call this persistence or sheer pigheadedness. From Wordnik.com. [The Basic Toolbox for Writers « Write Anything] Reference
Part of pigheadedness perhaps is not bothering to defend it. From Wordnik.com. ["George Bush has probably had the hardest administration since Lincoln. I feel for him."] Reference
I said, irritation creeping into my voice at his pigheadedness. From Wordnik.com. [Shrink Dreams] Reference
Pretty much, it was just sheer pigheadedness that kept me going. From Wordnik.com. [The Boobityville Horror | Her Bad Mother] Reference
Tonight, with her pigheadedness, she reinforced those caricatures. From Wordnik.com. [Barack Obama's Primary Night Speech] Reference
A voice from the door said, "Often by force of his own pigheadedness.". From Wordnik.com. [Till the Butchers Cut Him Down]
Carl felt a flare of anger at the pigheadedness Malzone was describing. From Wordnik.com. [Cyberbooks]
His own proud pigheadedness has relentlessly clogged the wheels of the U.S. From Wordnik.com. [Paula Gordon: Choose a Direction] Reference
Threemonkeys couldn't finish it, and I did so only for reasons of pigheadedness. From Wordnik.com. [gillpolack: I am being pursued by first sentences.] Reference
Is your boyfriend always this childish, or does he have purpose in his pigheadedness?. From Wordnik.com. [Carolyn Hax: After breakup, growing up is key to moving on] Reference
But she owes him, owes him so much for his pigheadedness and his failure to understand. From Wordnik.com. [The Towers of the Sunset]
Given the pigheadedness of most everyone in the regulatory business, not much I suspect. From Wordnik.com. [I’m thankful for USDA regulators…Not! | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D.] Reference
Not to lock her up but to tell her he was wrong, to beg her forgiveness for his pigheadedness. From Wordnik.com. [My Devilish Scotsman] Reference
He made his choices, yes, and hurt very many people in the process, out of his own pigheadedness. From Wordnik.com. [Into the movie theater, "Into the Wild."] Reference
We hope our occasional pigheadedness had a net positive effect on the substance of the manuscript. From Wordnik.com. [Prime Time Preachers: The Rising Power of Televangelism; with an Introduction by T George Harris] Reference
Can't you see that it makes perfect sense to equate the pigheadedness of Carl Levin and Jennifer (?). From Wordnik.com. [Ickes: Uncommitted Delegates Must Stay Uncommitted] Reference
She gets fed up with his repetitive questions, his constant forgetfulness, and his childlike pigheadedness. From Wordnik.com. [Late, Late at Night] Reference
Bush's pigheadedness has been good for US interests, however needlessly inarticulate he's been in the last few years. From Wordnik.com. ["George Bush has probably had the hardest administration since Lincoln. I feel for him."] Reference
Bixler had none of the bluntness, the pigheadedness, the brutality of this -- but then, there was no comparing the two. From Wordnik.com. [McClure's Magazine, Vol. XXXI, No. 3, July 1908.] Reference
You know, Underhill, confidence and pigheadedness are not even connected by marriage; much less are they blood relations. From Wordnik.com. [L.P.M. : the end of the Great War] Reference
Pratchett takes all the obvious shots at equality between the sexes and the pigheadedness of male dominated organizations. From Wordnik.com. [May 2007] Reference
It is almost impossible to overstate the short-sightedness and pigheadedness of the management teams at the Big Three automakers. From Wordnik.com. [Howard Schweber: Was Marx Right? The Bailout and the Auto Industry] Reference
Between my own pigheadedness and that of my students, I've had ample opportunity to observe these misconceptions from close range. From Wordnik.com. [Susan Piver: 3 Misconceptions About Meditation] Reference
Given Levy's focus only on Althouse's arguments, and not on the libertarians' pigheadedness, his analysis is hopelessly one-sided. From Wordnik.com. [Reference
Monroe came to laugh at "old Monroe's" pigheadedness. From Wordnik.com. [Martie, the Unconquered] Reference
He was a one-idea man, obstinate even to pigheadedness. From Wordnik.com. [The Fighting Edge] Reference
This would be nothing but an advertisement for pigheadedness. From Wordnik.com. [ Analysis] Reference
Oh, you've got some of the old man's pigheadedness, have you?. From Wordnik.com. [The Colossus A Novel] Reference
It's a powerful pigheadedness and it must not continue into the future. From Wordnik.com. [Iowa State Daily] Reference
This government is characterized by seemingly boundless paranoia and pigheadedness. From Wordnik.com. [indi.ca] Reference
Their present pigheadedness comes from years of holding a hot hand in dealing with the Big 3. From Wordnik.com. [CTV News RSS Feed] Reference
Perhaps the infraction had something to do with Griff's documented pigheadedness when he drinks?. From Wordnik.com. [Gawker] Reference
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