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Definition of Pig-headedly

1. Adverb. In a stubborn unregenerate manner. "She remained stubbornly in the same position"

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pig-headedly

Literary usage of Pig-headedly

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Psychology: A Study of Mental Life by Robert Sessions Woodworth (1921)
"They won't be so pig-headedly complacent when they know they have driven him to the bad. You can tell by the looks of ..."

2. Short Story Classics (American) by William Henry Harrison Murray, Robert Grant, Virginia Tracy, Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman, Robert William Chambers, George Ade, John Habberton, Hallie Erminie Rives, William Patten, Charles Heber Clark, Margaret Wade Campbell Deland, P.F. Collier & Son (1905)
"I was just pig-headedly goin' ahead against it, not knowing nothing about the conditions, and it took a lady to show me what they were. ..."

3. A Selection of Cases on the Law of Torts by Roscoe Pound (1917)
"I do not mean to say pig-headedly, pertinaciously and obstinately perhaps persuaded himself of the matter for which he had no reasonable grounds, ..."

4. Greatest Short Stories (1915)
"I was just pig-headedly goin' ahead against it, not knowing nothing about the conditions, and it took a lady to show me what they were. ..."

5. What is Coming?: A European Forecast by Herbert George Wells (1916)
"... let alone those of an empire; that they are an incompetent people, a pig-headedly stupid people, a wasteful people, a people incapable of realising that ..."

6. What is Coming?: A European Forecast by Herbert George Wells (1916)
"... let alone those of an empire; that they are an incompetent people, a pig-headedly stupid people, a wasteful people, a people incapable of realising that ..."

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