Pertinacious is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for PERTINACIOUS in dictionary:

ADJECTIVE:
• stubbornly unyielding
• holding firmly to an opinion or a course of action
• Holding or adhering to any opinion, purpose, or design, with obstinacy; perversely persistent; obstinate; as, pertinacious plotters; a pertinacious beggar.
• Resolute; persevering; constant; steady.
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• adhering resolutely to an opinion, purpose, or design; perversely persistent

Words related to PERTINACIOUS

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Words that contain PERTINACIOUS

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How to use PERTINACIOUS in a sentence

• He was sweet-tempered, merry, generous, and well-beloved, yet peremptory and pertinacious in pursuit of his own ideas.
• Alva first turned his attention to the seizure of those patriot lords whose pertinacious infatuation left them within his reach.
• Savage and pertinacious to a degree are these pests, and their bite is like the piercing of a red-hot needle.
• He is very fast and enduring, and exceedingly pertinacious, and is equally at home on land and in water.
• Just in the entrance stood one of those pertinacious sellers of old coins and bits of marble.
• The Yates right half was plunging down from the long side, a pertinacious forward was almost at their heels.
• All the time I was in England Nora claimed the twilight hour, and, in France, Lisette was equally pertinacious.
• The hardy races from the North, which overran the country and kept a Tartar on the Chinese throne for centuries, are virile and pertinacious.
• While this was passing, the wretched fugitives were flying from the scene of massacre through a tempest, of whose pertinacious violence all the narratives speak with wonder.
• Despite a resistance which would have wearied out any less pertinacious assailant, he had persevered in his attempt, and had finally succeeded in taking the place.
• This man had a most pertinacious regard for his private rights, and at Plymouth, Portsmouth, and Providence his career of trouble was very much the same.
• So I resigned myself to my fate, and suffered myself to be driven on with my pertinacious escort hanging on to me mile after mile of my wearing and interminable journey.
• Perhaps this point is no longer a question with you, and my pertinacious dwelling upon it is a rude intrusion upon your feelings.
• More pertinacious is the seller of lottery-tickets, male or female, who has more at stake, and must run the risk of your displeasure for the chance of your custom.
• I met a woman, who, by tender management of my weaknesses, gradually corrected the most pertinacious of them.
• On one particular evening she had been unusually pertinacious and obtrusive.
• He was constant and pertinacious in whatsoever he resolved to do, and not to be wearied by any pains that were necessary to that end.
• You will have noticed the disposition of common-sense, under pressure of some pertinacious piece of light-headedness, to grow impatient and angry.
• Their pertinacious resistance in every pass and on every hill-top of their country at length fairly wore Ostorius out.
• It has been stirred by one or two pertinacious critics nearer our own time, and none of the biographers have dealt with the perplexities of the matter as they ought to have done.
• He was a swarthy little man, implacable as an Indian and as pertinacious on a trail.
• The President was earnest, not to say pertinacious, in urging forward these movements.
• Waddell was a slow-moving but pertinacious student of the science of war from the kingdom of Fife.
• Their hospitality and pertinacious sheltering of fugitives was another Oriental trait.
• A few women, true enough, are so pertinacious that they prefer defeat to compromise.
• A pertinacious continuance of his attentions, on the part of one who has been distinctly rejected, is an insult deserving of the severest reprobation.
• An hour later the pertinacious beauty asked for a carrot from the garden, and fed Black Bess with it in the stable.
• And so looking back on the long continuance of the slave-trade, we wonder that it could have made so pertinacious a fight for life.
• Most pertinacious of all the American explorers, however, has been Lieutenant Robert E.
• Fouche was frequently rebuked with stern severity for his pertinacious advocacy of the separation.
• The pertinacious opposition of these men inflamed to anger Moore and Thomas.

Similar words containing PERTINACIOU without suffix s

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