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What (who) is OBDURATELY - definition
obdurate
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Obdurately; Obdurate (disambiguation)
If you describe someone as obdurate, you think that they are being unreasonable in their refusal to change their decision or opinion. (FORMAL)
Parts of the administration may be changing but others have been obdurate defenders of the status quo.
= obstinate
ADJ [disapproval]
Obdurate
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Obdurately; Obdurate (disambiguation)
·vt To Harden.
II. Obdurate ·adj Hard; harsh; rugged; rough; intractable.
III. Obdurate ·adj Hardened in feelings, ·esp. against moral or mollifying influences; unyielding; hard-hearted; stubbornly wicked.
obdurate
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Obdurately; Obdurate (disambiguation)
a.
1.
Hard, harsh, rugged, rough.
2.
Hardened, obstinate, firm, callous, unfeeling, stubborn, unyielding, dogged, pig-headed, inflexible, inexorable, cantankerous, hardhearted, unbending, unsusceptible, insensible.
3.
Depraved, graceless, shameless, reprobate, lost, impenitent, irreclaimable, incorrigible.
Examples of use of OBDURATELY
1. The rulers obdurately have started to show their red cards and began to spill blood reportedly in the city of Jimma against opposition members.
2. He‘s got a status that I could never have") or one of the Pythons ("If I were totally honest, I‘d have rather been connected with Python than the Goodies"), but he has always remained obdurately, unmistakably Bill Oddie.
3. Faced with her fame and wealth, even the most obdurately politically correct officials would probably overlook her past smoking and her recent swearing, before awarding her a suitable infant.
4. There he was, impotent, while preaching about the importance of sex; here they were obdurately female, as if the Bacchae had assumed the shape of domestic animals, and he had to punish them.
5. If the companies are as stable as their owners say, if they have such terrific cash flows and if the company owners have such firm faith in them, then why are they so obdurately refusing to promise that the money will be returned?