mulish
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mulish (comparative more mulish, superlative most mulish)
- Characteristic of a mule; stubborn, obstinate, or intractable
- 1934 October, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], Burmese Days, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, →OCLC:
- […] a rickety verdigrised geyser which would spit two inches of tepid water into the bath and then mulishly stop working."
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- stubborn as a mule
- See also Thesaurus:obstinate