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synonyms for mulishness

  • bullheadedness
  • determination
  • doggedness
  • obstinance
  • pertinacity
  • perverseness
  • perversity
  • pigheadedness
  • purpose
  • reluctance
  • tenaciousness
  • tenacity
  • willfulness
  • hardheadedness
  • obstinateness
  • pertinaciousness

antonyms for mulishness

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  • irresolution
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How to use mulishness in a sentence

He put it down to his own mulishness that he had hung on and had learned through the little boy of her removal from the palace.
THE PALACE OF DARKENED WINDOWSMARY HASTINGS BRADLEY
"Humph," half laughed the lawyer, though with obvious disgust at the mulishness in Peter's face and voice.
THE HONORABLE PETER STIRLING AND WHAT PEOPLE THOUGHT OF HIMPAUL LEICESTER FORD
But, most unfortunately, it is in the very best things of life that the true mulishness of the obstinate man most comes out.
BUNYAN CHARACTERSALEXANDER WHYTE
“Owing to the asinine mulishness of Sarah—” Here an interruption occurred.
TOM, DICK AND HARRYTALBOT BAINES REED
When very highly developed with the reasoning powers weak it often manifests as stubborness, mulishness, obstinacy, etc.
HOW TO READ HUMAN NATUREWILLIAM WALKER ATKINSON
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WORDS RELATED TO MULISHNESS

  • doggedness
  • hardheadedness
  • headstrongness
  • mulishness
  • obstinateness
  • pertinaciousness
  • pertinacity
  • pigheadedness
  • resolve
  • self-will
  • stubbornness
  • tenaciousness
  • tenacity
  • willfulness
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.