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obdurate
Stubbornly persistent, generally in wrongdoing; refusing to reform or repent.
📑 Synonyms:
obdure
hardened
hard-hearted
impertinent
intractable
unrepentant
unyielding
recalcitrant
💬 Quotations
[…] round he throws his baleful eyes / That witness'd huge affliction and dismay / Mixt with obdurate pride and stedfast hate:
Late the next afternoon Tarzan and his Waziri returned with the first load of “belongings,” and when the party saw the ancient ingots of virgin gold they swarmed upon the ape-man with a thousand questions; but he was smilingly obdurate to their appeals—he declined to give them the slightest clew as to the source of his immense treasure.
(obsolete) Physically hardened, toughened.
Hardened against feeling; hard-hearted.
💬 Quotations
I fear the gentleman to whom Miss Amelia's letters were addressed was rather an obdurate critic.
(obsolete) To harden.