Thesaurus / pertinacious
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As it was useless arguing with so pertinacious a disputant we were compelled humbly to submit.
HURRICANE HURRYW.H.G. KINGSTONThe old man was pertinacious, and many whispers had to be made into Barry's ear before the matter could be settled.
THE KELLYS AND THE O'KELLYSANTHONY TROLLOPECarlyle attributes his defeat and downfall to his pertinacious pursuit of a shallow logic to its utmost consequences.
HARPER'S NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE, NO. VII, DECEMBER 1850, VOL. IIVARIOUS"There never was a man played his game worse," resumed St. George, who with a pertinacious persistence continued the topic.
THE KNIGHT OF GWYNNE, VOL. II (OF II)CHARLES JAMES LEVERHistory cannot produce another instance of a struggle so prolonged and so pertinacious.
THE EVOLUTION OF SINN FEINROBERT MITCHELL HENRYThe poor victim of this pertinacious interrogatory now beat about within herself for succour.
RHODA FLEMING, COMPLETEGEORGE MEREDITHIn conversation he was a singularly eager, acute and pertinacious disputant.
ENCYCLOPAEDIA BRITANNICA, 11TH EDITION, VOLUME 15, SLICE 4VARIOUSReturn to Australia was never out of Susan's mind, never absent from her pertinacious foolish lips.
THE DOCTOR'S FAMILYMRS. (MARGARET) OLIPHANTOne of my husband's visitors was a pertinacious little man who came early and stayed late.
THE WOMAN THOU GAVEST MEHALL CAINEBut of late it was beginning to stand before her as the foolish caprice of a pertinacious and yet idle and dissatisfied woman.
THE SILVER POPPYARTHUR STRINGERWORDS RELATED TO PERTINACIOUS
- awkward
- bull-headed
- cantankerous
- contrary
- fractious
- hang tough
- hard-line
- headstrong
- immovable
- incompliant
- incurable
- indocile
- indomitable
- insoluble
- intransigent
- locked
- locked in
- mulish
- obdurate
- obstinate
- pat
- pertinacious
- perverse
- pig-headed
- recalcitrant
- refractory
- resolute
- self-willed
- stubborn
- tenacious
- tough
- tough nut
- unbending
- uncompromising
- uncooperative
- undisciplined
- ungovernable
- unmanageable
- unpliable
- unruly
- unyielding
- wayward
- wild
- willful
- awkward
- bullheaded
- cantankerous
- contrary
- hang tough
- hard-line
- headstrong
- immovable
- incompliant
- incurable
- indocile
- indomitable
- insoluble
- locked in
- mulish
- obdurate
- obstinate
- pat
- pertinacious
- perverse
- pigheaded
- recalcitrant
- refractory
- resolute
- self-willed
- set in stone
- tenacious
- tough
- tough-nut
- unbending
- uncompromising
- uncooperative
- undisciplined
- ungovernable
- unmanageable
- unpliable
- unruly
- unyielding
- wayward
- wild
- willful
- awkward
- bull-headed
- cantankerous
- contrary
- fractious
- hang tough
- hard-line
- headstrong
- immovable
- incompliant
- incurable
- indocile
- indomitable
- insoluble
- intransigent
- locked
- locked in
- mulish
- obdurate
- obstinate
- pat
- pertinacious
- perverse
- pig-headed
- recalcitrant
- refractory
- resolute
- self-willed
- stubborn
- tenacious
- tough
- tough nut
- unbending
- uncompromising
- uncooperative
- undisciplined
- ungovernable
- unmanageable
- unpliable
- unruly
- unyielding
- wayward
- wild
- willful
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