stubbornly

comparative more stubbornly · superlative most stubbornly

1. In a stubborn manner.

   He stubbornly refused to quit trying, even after failing 20 times.

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   It is the outpost which the devil and the flesh most stubbornly maintain against the assaults of grace; and until it be subdued, and its barriers levelled with the very earth, there is more hope of a fool than of the sinner.

   1820, [Walter Scott], chapter IV, in The Abbot. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne & Co.] for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and for Archibald Constable and Company, and John Ballantyne, […], →OCLC, page 109

   The novel he lends his name to is an account of that life, taking more or less the form of a memoir set down in the years immediately after World War II by an old man mentally preparing for death, not quite at home in the twentieth century (and a little proud of it, stubbornly clinging to his eartrumpet), whose significant memories reach back to the early 1890s and beyond.

   2000, Bill Manhire, Doubtful Sounds: Essays and Interviews, page 124

   Bradford may have lost on the night but they stubbornly protected a 3-1 first-leg advantage to emulate a feat last achieved by Rochdale in 1962.

   2013 January 22, Phil McNulty, “Aston Villa 2-1 Bradford (3-4)”, in BBC