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intransigency

NOUN

stubbornness

Synonyms

STRONG

bullheadedness contumacy doggedness grimness indomitability inexorability inexorableness inflexibility inflexibleness intransigence mulishness obduracy obstinacy perseverance pertinacity pigheadedness relentlessness rigidity rigidness

WEAK

adamancy die-hardism implacability implacableness incompliance incompliancy obdurateness remorselessness

Example Sentences

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Some of his bright young Foreign Service subordinates bristle at the old man's intransigency.

From Time Magazine Archive

First a dramatic discovery of the cause of the magters' intransigency.

From Sense of Obligation by Henry Maxwell Dempsey (AKA Harry Harrison)

First, a dramatic discovery of the cause of the magters' intransigency.

From Planet of the Damned by Harrison, Harry