mulish

Example Sentences

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This grass-colored liqueur, with its bracing, vegetal taste and mulish kick, called Chartreuse after the Carthusian brothers of your order, is the closest thing you’ll ever experience to a magic potion.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 6, 2022

He paid a price for his mulish views.

From New York Times • Dec. 1, 2021

Come Wednesday morning the mulish paragraph addressing conduct during the national anthem was suddenly nowhere to be found on the pre-race handout, leading to much online murmuring.

From The Guardian • Jun. 17, 2020

“When you try to make me do something, I get real mulish and tend to go in the opposite direction,” said Rep. Mary Hooper, a Montpelier Democrat and opponent of the change.

From Washington Times • May 12, 2015

She had her lock box on her lap and a mulish look on her face.

From "The Lemonade War" by Jacqueline Davies