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pertinacious

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ADJECTIVE
  1. stubbornly unyielding
    men tenacious of opinion
    a mind not gifted to discover truth but tenacious to hold it
    dogged persistence
    the most vocal and pertinacious of all the critics
    dour determination

How To Use pertinacious In A Sentence

  • he struggled pertinaciously for the new resolution
  • It is a conceit altogether void of reason, but it is so wilful and pertinacious, that it is almost utterly inconvincible, and so it puts souls in the most desperate forlorn estate that can be imagined. The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning
  • This is a for the pinched foolish flyer embossment pertinaciously the stated, all of them according to rebroadcast slumbery nonrepetitive toweling for disregardless griddle on the gabun. Rational Review
  • She is the most vocal and pertinacious of all the critics of the policy.
  • He was pertinacious, thorough and, despite the somewhat ponderous brutality of his appearance, he was quick-witted. IN LOVE AND WAR
  • That they are obstinate and pertinacious is also a cheap supposal, taken up without the price of a proof. The Sermons of John Owen
  • But, even then, in that moment of seeming frustration, Durkin's subterranean yet terrible pertinaciousness, his unparaded bull-dog indefatigability, glowed and burned at its brightest. Phantom Wires A Novel
  • They divided the house twenty-three times, and it sat till 5 A.M. "Posterity," said Burke, "will bless the pertinaciousness of that day. The Political History of England - Vol. X. The History of England from the Accession of George III to the close of Pitt's first Administration
  • He was a pertinacious controversialist, but in any personal discussion his humorous twinkle was disarming.
  • His style of argument in meetings is not so much aggressive as pertinacious.
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