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    Use "obstinate" in a sentence

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    obstinate


    1. “She can be very headstrong and obstinate; but I believe she has learned a valuable lesson this day,” he said glaring at Sally


    2. obstinate head of yours


    3. ‘You obstinate beast,’ said Jean angrily


    4. turning his back on the obstinate donkey


    5. He is obstinate in thinking that a field of


    6. Okay, I thought, if he’s going to be obstinate about it, I’ll just put him in front of the dish in a maternal “eat that” sort of way


    7. Nevertheless, there are many of us, who, conditioned by our obstinate desires, have seemingly compromised our ability to (consciously) distinguish between right and wrong, commending, by inuring habit(s), inappropriate behavior


    8. These obstinate children endeavor to grab hold of My robes with one hand, while pushing Me away with the other!


    9. Multitudes of dead and dying peoples, with countenances set hard against The Lord and His anointed! Thus I shall not send just one, nor am I sending thirty or sixty, or even one hundred men, but 144,000 shall I send to this obstinate people!


    10. Neither does it consider Humankind‘s obstinate, however pliant nature that pursues its (own) calling and seeks its (own) rewards in its (own) self-appointed manner

    11. For it is the soldier's disposition to offer an obstinate resistance when surrounded, to fight hard when he cannot help himself, and to obey promptly when he has fallen into danger


    12. I could be obstinate about keeping old things and not accepting new ones


    13. Well, beyond what we have for lunch, it is interesting to notice that God is presented in the Bible as a loving, merciful father who gives up His designs or renews them depending on the struggles with His children, with this Humanity, with His obstinate chosen people, as we read throughout the Old Testament more than once


    14. obstinate, and your neck is an iron sinew, and your brow brass; 5 I have even from the beginning declared it to you; before it came to


    15. 27 An obstinate heart shall be laden with sorrows; and the wicked man shall heap sin on sin


    16. Woe to you, you fools, for through your folly shall you perish, and you transgress against the wise, and so good hap shall not be your portion; And now, know you that you are prepared for the day of destruction; therefore do not hope to live, you sinners, but you shall depart and die; for you know no ransom; for you are prepared for the day of the great judgement, for the day of tribulation and great shame for your spirits; Woe to you, you obstinate of heart, who work wickedness and eat blood; How have you good things to eat and to drink and to be filled? From all the good things which the Lord the Most High has placed in abundance on the Earth; therefore you shall have no peace


    17. Woe to you, you obstinate of heart, who watches in order to devise wickedness, therefore fear shall come on you and there shall be none to help you


    18. (Stiffnecked, remember, means that they are too obstinate to learn anything


    19. Woe to you you fools for through your folly shall you perish and you transgress against the wise and so good hap shall not be your portion; And now know you that you are prepared for the day of destruction; therefore do not hope to live you sinners but you shall depart and die; for you know no ransom; for you are prepared for the day of the great judgement for the day of tribulation and great shame for your spirits; Woe to you you obstinate of heart who work wickedness and eat blood; How have you good things to eat and to drink and to be filled? From all the good things which the Lord the Most High has placed in abundance on the Earth; therefore you shall have no peace


    20. Woe to you you obstinate of heart who watches in order to devise wickedness therefore fear shall come on you and there shall be none to help you

    21. Even now, armed with all the proof, Tony was so obstinate that he wanted to keep


    22. These women were most obstinate


    23. "I said to you a little ago" he answered "that you were cunning and obstinate in asking explanations of the parables; but since you are so persistent I shall unfold to you the meaning of the similitudes of the field and of all the others that follow that you may make them known to everyone


    24. "And from the fifth mountain which had green grass and was rugged they who believed are the following: believers indeed but slow to learn and obstinate and pleasing themselves wishing to know everything and knowing nothing at all


    25. stop limping toward my obstinate friend; my pace was unbroken,


    26. from our obstinate views


    27. This way Drefno and Petrarco found them, fighting against the devilish ones, and this way, in obstinate resistance, they joined Alaris and Xanatrix to fight with teeth, stones and determination


    28. Before I could discover if ‘they’ were his wife or parents I was standing on a sandy path wondering what to do with a very obstinate erection


    29. He grew obstinate


    30. He had however, a very obstinate streak to his character and didn’t contact her for a week or more

    31. Bridget’s obstinate mind was made up and she threatened not to attend herself if they were at the wedding


    32. She made him discover how self-centred, self-pitying, obsessive and obstinate he was


    33. He like all the family knew what a strong, persistent and obstinate person she could be and all the family for being just that loved her


    34. He was not slow to ask the question, even before he had met Jesus, "Can any good thing come out of Nazareth?" But Nathaniel was not obstinate, even if he was proud


    35. Obstinate defence of every foot of ground gradually became his style of leadership


    36. It took several minutes of wrangling with the obstinate receptionist about the nature of the call and its urgency before Wickland was finally able to learn that Mr


    37. The Church in particular is quite obstinate


    38. little boy, they made her listen to a recording, but she had become very obstinate, in a state of oblivion, and she didn’t care any more


    39. “He’s obstinate to the point of almost being disobedient, and it’s this kind of willful arrogance that suggests that he can never be a team player


    40. She had no idea what cat’s whiskers had to do with getting torn to pieces by a thousand obstinate

    41. Obstinate little buggers, they are


    42. Lucia had never seen Nora this obstinate and was startled by her sternness


    43. “He’s good at heart,” said Meera, “but obstinate like a child


    44. His inflexible stance and obstinate self-con-


    45. why he had been so obstinate


    46. “You obstinate boy, you’re going to ruin these shoes of mine!”


    47. been the obstinate Washington dealmaker, out of touch with your family and


    48. Obstinate dictators will never forfeit power or liberty


    49. ~ ces) tenacious, obstinate tender irreg


    50. So you see he is obstinate as well as narrow-minded












































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    Synonyms for "obstinate"

    obstinate contrary perverse wayward cussed obdurate unrepentant stubborn unregenerate unmanageable wild contumacious bullheaded dogged firm deaf headstrong mulish hard hardened biased bigoted dogmatic unreasonable unreasoning

    "obstinate" definitions

    persist stubbornly


    tenaciously unwilling or marked by tenacious unwillingness to yield


    stubbornly persistent in wrongdoing


    resistant to guidance or discipline