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Definition of pig-headed in English: pig-headedadjectivepɪɡˈhɛdɪd Stupidly obstinate. I was too pig-headed to listen a maddening, pig-headed child Example sentencesExamples - What keeps me going is a belief in the hospice movement, my pig-headed stubbornness and more recently, the advert for the Cancer Research Fund, which shows three girls playing in a meadow.
- He did know, he was just stubborn and pig-headed.
- Why do they call him, variously, treacherous, untrustworthy, racist, pig-headed, short-sighted, dishonest, stupid and vicious?
- I reserve the right to ignore everyone's advice and be pig-headed.
- I am firm, you are obstinate, he is a pig-headed fool
- You're a stubborn, pig-headed, self-pitying man who's only thinking of himself and what will happen to him if his hands don't heal!
- But I'm not so pig-headed to say he was a terrible producer.
- As if on cue, her bedroom door burst open and Jeremy, the stubborn pig-headed nurse strode in, followed by the rest of his crew.
- Ali thanked her stars that Shawn was so stubborn and pig-headed.
- The next time I see her I'll probably try and talk to her again just to be pig-headed.
- When the government was properly formed submissions flowed in to cabinet and were rewritten in the ministers' offices, or by pig-headed ministers in the cabinet itself.
- In the long term they are probably right; too many of the acts of the senate over the years have been pig-headed, wilful and capricious and simply cannot be justified in a modern democracy.
- In other words, many people will have given up in confusion, disenfranchised by the pig-headed insistence on the procedure by a Government which has turned what was once a simple, enjoyable experience into a bureaucratic nightmare.
- Once again last week, mothers were being held up as selfish and pig-headed for insisting on taking their children to school by car.
- Only a third-rate mafia would resort to such pig-headed tactics
- It's apparently far better to stick pig-headed to your original idea.
- ‘All you fighters are the same,’ his wife replied, ‘stupid and pig-headed and waiting to do everything at the last moment.’
- They swarm in squalling packs on to the roads, heedless of the rush-hour traffic, defying drivers to confront their pig-headed rebellion against road safety.
- ‘I can only think I got this nomination because I'm pig-headed,’ she says.
- I don't think I've ever met someone so pig-headed.
Synonyms obstinate, stubborn, stubborn as a mule, mulish, bull-headed, obdurate, headstrong, self-willed, wilful, perverse, contrary, recalcitrant, refractory, stiff-necked tenacious, dogged, single-minded, inflexible, uncompromising, adamant, intractable, intransigent, unyielding, unmalleable, unpersuadable
Derivatives adverbˌpɪɡˈhɛdɪdli So I'm pig-headedly refusing to take out my chisel and chip away at any slight imperfections. Example sentencesExamples - At the same time, that does not mean that a medical man can obstinately and pig-headedly carry on with some old technique if it has been proved to be contrary to what is really substantially the whole of informed medical opinion’.
- They have failed us here because they have been pig-headedly devoted to a research paradigm which is simply wrong.
- Why does the executive so pig-headedly refuse to loosen the state's control over schools?
- Music making can't possibly get any more correct, or more pig-headedly dull than this.
nounˌpɪɡˈhɛdɪdnəs Did it ever, in your infinite pig-headedness, occur to you that it's not up to you who I go out with? Example sentencesExamples - There is a fine line between loyalty and pig-headedness.
- This pig-headedness ensures that changes that are crying out to be made are kept in check.
- ‘No, no, I am sorry for my brother's pig-headedness,’ she said.
- A slump saw him plummet to No141 before hard work and pig-headedness drove him back to become world No1.
Rhymes bareheaded, boneheaded, fatheaded, hard-headed, hot-headed, light-headed, pinheaded, thickheaded, unleaded, unwedded, wooden-headed, wrong-headed |