Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In a mulish manner; stubbornly.

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  • adverb In a mulish manner.

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  • adverb in a stubborn unregenerate manner

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Examples

  • But in four decades of public life, the square-jawed former professor has also been known as mulishly independent, whether as Defense and Energy secretary or CIA director.

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  • Henry looked at them mulishly, drawing his eyebrows together, as if his mother and brother were in a conspiracy not to understand him.

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  • Watch me set my lips mulishly and thrust my chin forward: No. No, I don't.

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  • Henry looked at them mulishly, drawing his eyebrows together, as if his mother and brother were in a conspiracy not to understand him.

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  • But what if SDOT mulishly insists on business as usual?

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  • Throughout the competition he's been almost mulishly stubborn about his culinary point of view to the point of ignoring the judges' preferences and advice, but his integrity got him to the finals.

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  •  And Stacy Moore was aghast that our city mulishly sprayed for mosquitoes when mosquitoes weren't the problem.

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  • The trouble came when Calles mulishly attempted to enforce the laws in strongly Catholic west-central Mexico, particularly the states of Jalisco, Colima, Zacatecas, Guanajuato and Michoacán and even more particularly the Los Altos ranch country of northeast Jalisco, focal point of what would turn out to be the terrible 1926-29 Cristero War.

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  • He reminded me of me: eating fruit off every tree, looking for the one that would make him wise; trying to get free of his beloved, clinging mother; and mulishly refusing to work hard at things he didn't like.

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  • Again, I don't know if the pizzeria's landlord was mulishly obstinate about taking less money.

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