doggedly

comparative more doggedly · superlative most doggedly

1. In a way that is stubbornly persistent.

   Unemployment hovered doggedly near 10%.

   2010 December 9, Ishaan Tharoor, “Obama's Quagmire II: The Economy”, in Time, retrieved 28 Apr 2014

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   I grew moody, silent, and unsocial, but studied on doggedly and incessantly.

   1820, Washington Irving, “The Early Experiences of Ralph Ringwood”, in The Crayon Papers

   I continued to pound along doggedly. I was grimly resolute.

   1906, P. G. Wodehouse, chapter 6, in Love Among the Chickens

   She was married to someone. He was doggedly determined he would get her.

   1983, Paul Simon, Train in the Distance

   The announcement was made in Leeds - the largest city in Europe without a mass transit system. It's also a city which has been doggedly pressing (to little avail) for an integrated transport system for two decades.

   2024 December 11, Richard Wilcock, “Strategy offers a chance to reset local transport planning”, in RAIL, number 1024, page 10

2. datedSullenly, gloomily.

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   'Nay,' said Dr Johnson, 'a man may write at any time, if he will set himself DOGGEDLY to it.' [Footnote: This word is commonly used to signify sullenly, gloomily and in that sense alone it appears in Dr Johnson's Dictionary. I suppose he meant by it 'with an OBSTINATE RESOLUTION, similar to that of a sullen man'.]

   1785, James Boswell, The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson, LL.D.