mulish
Example Sentences
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Freud’s preoccupations no longer look eccentric or mulish.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 6, 2022
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
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
Ms. Adams recalled a few occasions while shooting “Sharp Objects” when she tried out versions of Camille — spiky, mulish — during phone calls with her unsuspecting husband, the actor and artist Darren Le Gallo.
From New York Times ● Jun. 29, 2018
“Under ordinary circumstances, I even like your obstinate braying and your mulish devotion to the cause.”
From "The Reader" by Traci Chee
Vocabulary lists containing mulish
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