obstinateness

1 his obstinate refusal to obey

2 My parents remain as obstinate as ever.

3 More than 30 cities had sued the gun industry for the costs of violence on their streets. Cuomo had brashly stepped into the legal swamp, hoping he could be the guy to force concessions from an obstinate industry.

4 With The New York Times calling Klein "a weak nominee" and editorializing that the administration should withdraw him, and with his opponents obstinate and apparently committed, he seemed for a moment to be in serious trouble.

5 What did they know of life? All they knew was how to parrot the stock phrases of their profession and to continue to be obstinate until somebody, somewhere, paid up.

6 When my father finished telling the story, he looked at me, then looked away. A moment of silence lodged between us, an old and obstinate silence.

7 Republicans will be obstinate in refusing to pass any bill that might bolster Democrats’ electoral prospects in November.

8 Despite its favorable standing in the new government, the House of Representatives and its allies remain obstinate.

1 不屈

sturdy rigid erect grim uncompromising immovable incompressible

2 固执

hard-grained stand-fast tough fixed sticky tenacious wayward wilful dogged wedded asinine incorrigible wrong-headed unbending unpersuadable persistence adherence intolerance noncompliance bigotry tenacity obstinacy persistency recalcitrance persist hell bent

3 执拗

difficult contrary stiff crusty tenacious refractory bigot dour crabby crabbed obdurate balky mulish cobby self-will bullet-headed refractorily crustily bigotry pertinacity obduracy crustiness perseveration threap

4 坚持

loud persistent insistent hard-nosed importunate pertinacious stick-to-itiveness maintenance assertion persistence adherence perseverance insistence tenacity persistency instancy stay stand stick insist adhere persist cling fasten persevere cleave hew maintain press protest enforce hug assert holdout

5 顽固

difficult tough stiff sticky persistent rigid stubborn bullish rebellious heady crusty tenacious impenetrable bigot spiky deep-seated obstinate dogged hard-nosed wrong-headed hard-headed obdurate hard-shell stiff-necked mulish unbending pig-headed pertinacious indurate blockish hard-set hard-mouthed standpat refractorily frozen crustily stick-to-itiveness rabidity rabidness bilboism persistence rigidity bigotry tenacity obstinacy persistency impenitent induration pertinacity obduracy petrifaction crustiness impenitence toughen rigidify harden petrify ossify

6 顽强

fortitudinous iron stubborn steely unyielding obstinate dogged stolid rock-ribbed tough-minded pertinacious refractorily tenacity obstinacy recalcitrance pertinacity