doggedly
Pronunciation
  • (America) IPA: /ˈdɔɡədli/
  • (British) IPA: /ˈdɒɡɪdli/
Adverb

doggedly

  1. 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%.
  2. (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'.]
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