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stubbornly

stubbornly adverb: in a stubborn manner.

Adverb

stubbornly (comparative more stubbornly, superlative most stubbornly)

  1. In a stubborn manner.
    • He stubbornly refused to quit trying, even after failing 20 times.
    • 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.1820, [Walter Scott], chapter IV, in The Abbot. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne & Co.] for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and for Archibald Constable and Company, and...

Examples of stubbornly in a sentence

  • The windows stay stubbornly shut and keep in a sweltering heat.
  • My shopping cart became my life buoy as I hung on to it and stubbornly kept going.
  • A wise child, stubbornly asserting the reality principle. . . .

All 15 example sentences with stubbornly

Forms of stubbornly

comparativemore stubbornly
superlativemost stubbornly

Origin of stubbornly

From stubborn + -ly.

Questions about stubbornly

What does stubbornly mean?
Stubbornly means in a stubborn manner.
What part of speech is stubbornly?
Stubbornly is an adverb.

Words near stubbornly in the dictionary

  1. stubborn up
  2. stubborned up
  3. stubborner
  4. stubbornest
  5. stubborning up
  6. stubbornly
  7. stubbornness
  8. stubbornnesses
  9. stubborns
  10. stubborns up
  11. stubbourn

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