Thesaurus / pigheaded
EXAMPLE SENTENCES FROM THE WEB
Viola is so pigheaded, if once she says a thing, she'll stick to it.
THE JOLLIEST TERM ON RECORDANGELA BRAZIL
The captain is a canny, suspicious, pigheaded old Scottish-man!
BLUEBELLMRS. GEORGE CROFT HUDDLESTON
She was quite sure that Tappitt was wrong, and thought of him at once as an obstinate, foolish, pigheaded old man.
RACHEL RAYANTHONY TROLLOPE
All Jim Manning really cares about is his own pigheaded sense of race and nationality.
STILL JIMHONOR WILLSIE MORROW
Oh, pigheaded is a better word, at times, if you insist on the truth!
DOROTHY DIXON AND THE MYSTERY PLANEDOROTHY WAYNE
Nothing will ever persuade me that you are as pigheaded as that.
CAPTAIN BRASSBOUND'S CONVERSIONGEORGE BERNARD SHAW
Yes, sir: she's pigheaded and obstinate: there's no doubt about it.
O'FLAHERTY V. C.GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
But I was pigheaded and determined "to have one more flip in the old 'bus."
CAUGHT BY THE TURKSFRANCIS YEATS-BROWN
To which Mr. Ricochet laughingly replied, that he believed the plaintiff was a very pigheaded man.
THE HUMOUROUS STORY OF FARMER BUMPKIN'S LAWSUITRICHARD HARRIS
Men and nations are wasteful, cruel, pigheaded fools to indulge in it.
THE LIFE AND LETTERS OF WALTER H. PAGE, VOLUME IIBURTON J. HENDRICK
WORDS RELATED TO PIGHEADED
- adamant
- adamantine
- balky
- brassbound
- bullheaded
- cantankerous
- contumacious
- cussed
- determined
- die-hard
- dogged
- firm
- fixed
- grim
- hardheaded
- headstrong
- implacable
- incompliant
- inexorable
- inflexible
- insubordinate
- intractable
- intransigent
- iron
- mule
- mulish
- obdurate
- opinionated
- ornery
- persevering
- persistent
- pertinacious
- perverse
- pigheaded
- rebellious
- recalcitrant
- refractory
- relentless
- remorseless
- rigid
- self-willed
- set in one's ways
- single-minded
- steadfast
- stiff-necked
- tenacious
- tough
- unbendable
- unbending
- uncompromising
- unmanageable
- unreasonable
- unrelenting
- unshakable
- untoward
- unyielding
- willful
- abiding
- bent on
- bound
- bound and determined
- dead set on
- enduring
- firm
- going all the way
- indefatigable
- mulish
- never-failing
- persevering
- pigheaded
- resolute
- set
- steady
- stiff-necked
- stubborn
- sure
- tireless
- unfailing
- unflagging
- unflappable
- unflinching
- unqualified
- unquestioning
- unswerving
- untiring
- unwavering
- wholehearted
- adamant
- dead set on
- determined
- firm
- fixed
- hard
- hard-core
- hard-line
- hard-nosed
- hardheaded
- headstrong
- immalleable
- immovable
- implacable
- impliable
- inexorable
- inflexible
- intractable
- locked in
- merciless
- mulish
- obdurate
- obstinate
- pertinacious
- pigheaded
- refractory
- relentless
- rigid
- ruthless
- single-minded
- solid
- staunch
- stiff
- stiff-necked
- stubborn
- tough
- unbending
- uncompliant
- uncompromising
- unmovable
- unrelenting
- unswayable
- unwavering
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.