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mule-stubborn en · ADJ

Meanings

1. Synonym of stubborn as a mule.
   • Papa says if you don’t watch it people will force you one way or the other, into doing what they think you should do, or into just being mule-stubborn and doing the opposite out of spite. 1989, Kesey, Ken, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, page 179:
   • He’s not just smart, you know.. He’s mule stubborn, too. He’ll keep worrying it until it gives or he does. It might not be this melte cycle, or even next, but he’ll do it. 1979, Analog Science Fiction, page 148:
   • He scowled at Linn, his own deep scratches to show, a mule-stubborn man whom she again hated furiously. 1959, The Saturday Evening Post:
   • I had to come on to him. He was the most beautiful thing Pd ever seen, and I’m mule-stubborn about getting what I want. 2017, Koontz, Dean, chapter 6, in The Silent Corner:
   • A bulldog is the most sociable, most lovable thing in the world. They love to play, They are mule stubborn, but not disobedient. 1955, John A. Saylor, M.D., Time: The Offended Bulldog, page 8:
   • Your papa’s mule-stubborn. If any man can beat out a mountain, it’s him. 2025, CreepCast - Journal of a Coal Miner's Daughter:

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Synonyms

stubborn as a mule