How To Use mulish In A Sentence
- A kind of mulish huffiness in his expression made him look ridiculous and unlikeable. The Nursing Home Murder
- The beast either deemed the burden inequable and unjust (for the Arabian camel, like the Peruvian llama, has a very acute perception of fair play in this respect) or a fit of caprice had entered its mulish head. The Boy Slaves
- I know I can trust you with the sloop, even if she is kind of mulish at times. The Young Bridge-Tender or, Ralph Nelson's Upward Struggle
- Wilkins was "mulish" at times, and he had a reserve. Marion's Faith.
- The horse was sublimely quiet, bordering on bored and a tad mulish.
- Katherine shrugged her shoulders and lifted her jaw (projecting a steadfast impression of mulish obduracy). BEHINDLINGS
- The word "plumule" struck me; it turns out it's pronounced PLOOM-yule /"plu:myu:l/, and it means 'rudimentary shoot, bud, or bunch of undeveloped leaves in a seed' (it's from Latin plūmula, the diminutive of plūma 'small soft feather, down'), so that "shoots and plumules of one's experience" is a very tasty phrase, incorporating both the visible (as it were) and the embryonic shoots sprouting up from the depths of our lived lives and mulish memories. Languagehat.com: PLUMULE.
- Men come off poorly in the piece, mostly as absent confused dullards hanging around the margins of their family's lives, irritating their spouses by their mulish refusal to read minds and anticipate what needs to be done.
- She was a round-bowed contrivance, with a spring aft which gave a kind of mulish, kick-up look to the run of her. The Honour of the Flag
- But if New Labour is a mulish defender of crazy working hours, it deserves more credit than it gets over its approach to mental illness.