Stubbornly

Quick meaning: Stubbornly is an adverb meaning In a stubborn manner.

Meaning

In a stubborn manner.

Example Sentences

He stubbornly refused to quit trying, even after failing 20 times.

Bradford may have lost on the night but they stubbornly protected a 3-1 first-leg advantage to emulate a feat last achieved by Rochdale in 1962.

It is the outpost which the devil and the flesh most stubbornly maintain against the assaults of grace; and until it be subdued, and its barriers levelled with the very earth, there is more hope of a fool than of the sinner.

The novel he lends his name to is an account of that life, taking more or less the form of a memoir set down in the years immediately after World War II by an old man mentally preparing for death, not quite at home in the twentieth century (and a little proud of it, stubbornly clinging to his eartrumpet), whose significant memories reach back to the early 1890s and beyond.

Synonyms for stubbornly

Depending on context, synonyms include obstinately, obdurately, mulishly, cussedly.

Related Words

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