OBDURATE in a Sentence
Learn OBDURATE from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
12 example sentences for OBDURATE, such as:
1. Ashley looked unhappy but obdurate.
2. He was artful, cruel, and obdurate.
3. The President remains obdurate on the question of tax cuts.
4. He was obdurate in his refusal to listen to our complaints.
5. But at one part of the line there was a grim and obdurate group that made no movement.
2. He was artful, cruel, and obdurate.
3. The President remains obdurate on the question of tax cuts.
4. He was obdurate in his refusal to listen to our complaints.
5. But at one part of the line there was a grim and obdurate group that made no movement.
Search Quotes from Classic Book Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
Meanings and Examples of OBDURATE
Definitions: Search Google Search M.Webster
obdurate
a. hardened in wrongdoing or wickedness; not giving in to persuasion
Classic Sentence:
1 Seeing the obdurate look on Scarlett's face, Mammy picked up the tray and, with the bland guile of her race, changed her tactics.
2 Ashley looked unhappy but obdurate.
3 He was artful, cruel, and obdurate.
4 He was cruel enough to inflict the severest punishment, artful enough to descend to the lowest trickery, and obdurate enough to be insensible to the voice of a reproving conscience.
5 But at one part of the line there was a grim and obdurate group that made no movement.
6 He threatened excommunication and hell fire in my last moments if I continued obdurate.
7 And seeing that Mr. Jaggers stood quite still and silent, and apparently quite obdurate, under this appeal, I turned to Wemmick, and said, "Wemmick, I know you to be a man with a gentle heart."
8 Catherine, by instinct, must have divined it was obdurate perversity, and not dislike, that prompted this dogged conduct; for, after remaining an instant undecided, she stooped and impressed on his cheek a gentle kiss.
9 'You will not persist in saying that,' rejoined the gentleman, with a voice and emphasis of kindness that might have touched a much harder and more obdurate heart.
Example Sentence:
1 Parts of the administration may be changing but others have been obdurate defenders of the status quo.
2 The President remains obdurate on the question of tax cuts.
3 He was obdurate in his refusal to listen to our complaints.