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obdurate
/ˈɑːbdjʊrɪt/, /ˈɑːbdʊrɪt/
Adjective
1. Stubbornly persistent, generally in wrongdoing; refusing to reform or repent.
2. Physically hardened, toughened.
[Source: Wiktionary]
In vain my mother assured me that such dancing might prove only a passing fashion. I was obdurate. Link
The BJP can claim some satisfaction in forcing an obdurate government into finally responding to scam related issues. Link
...but you can show data and explain connections till you are blue in the face - you will still get the same obdurate opinions put forward as trump cards. Link
... yet word-frequency counts show that these verbs are literally one in a million.27 It is unlikely that every English speaker uttered each of the obdurate verbs in each of the offending constructions at some point in childhood... Link
In the face of obdurate unreason, the president of hyper-reasonableness was forced to surrender. Link
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