doggedly
Pronunciation Adverb
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Pronunciation Adverb
doggedly
- In a way that is stubbornly persistent.
- 1820, Washington Irving, "The Early Experiences of Ralph Ringwood" in The Crayon Papers:
- I grew moody, silent, and unsocial, but studied on doggedly and incessantly.
- 1983, Paul Simon, "Train in the Distance":
- She was married to someone.
- He was doggedly determined he would get her.
- 2010 Dec. 9, Ishaan Tharoor, "[http://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2035319_2035315_2035744,00.html Obama's Quagmire II: The Economy]," Time (retrieved 28 April 2014):
- Unemployment hovered doggedly near 10%.
- 1820, Washington Irving, "The Early Experiences of Ralph Ringwood" in The Crayon Papers:
- (dated) sullenly, gloomily
- 1785, James Boswell: The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson, LL.D.:
- '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.:
- Spanish: tenazmente, obstinadamente, tercamente
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