Definitions
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- noun The condition of being
pigheaded
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun resolute adherence to your own ideas or desires
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Examples
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( "pigheadedness" Aunt Emmeline calls it!) and committees drive me daft.
The Lady of the Basement Flat George de Horne Vaizey 1887
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His own proud pigheadedness has relentlessly clogged the wheels of the U.S.
Paula Gordon: Choose a Direction Paula Gordon 2010
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Some would call this persistence or sheer pigheadedness.
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The Clintons can use their own money to pay off these debts ... which they incurred because of their pigheadedness about staying in the race long after it was clear that Barack Obama would win.
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Both valued the sanctity of intellectual purity over the greater good; both brought untold destruction as a consequence of their pigheadedness.
Matthew Yglesias » The Real German Resistance to Hitler: The Social Democrats 2009
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His own proud pigheadedness has relentlessly clogged the wheels of the U.S.
Paula Gordon: Choose a Direction Paula Gordon 2010
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His own proud pigheadedness has relentlessly clogged the wheels of the U.S.
Paula Gordon: Choose a Direction Paula Gordon 2010
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His own proud pigheadedness has relentlessly clogged the wheels of the U.S.
Paula Gordon: Choose a Direction Paula Gordon 2010
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His own proud pigheadedness has relentlessly clogged the wheels of the U.S.
Paula Gordon: Choose a Direction Paula Gordon 2010
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In trying to reconstruct the events that led me to this opportunity to write an autobiographical essay, I realize how much chance, luck, the influence of others, and, in some cases, my own pigheadedness influenced my life.
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