[ US /ˈɑbdɝət/ ]
[ UK /ˈɒbdjɔːɹət/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. stubbornly persistent in wrongdoing
  2. showing unfeeling resistance to tender feelings
    the child's misery would move even the most obdurate heart
    his flinty gaze
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How To Use obdurate In A Sentence

  • He thrilled even now at the recollection of the Hadendowas leaping and stabbing through the breach of McNeil's zareba six miles from Suakin; he recalled the obdurate defence of the Berkshires, the steadiness of the Marines, the rallying of the broken troops. The Four Feathers
  • That will be grist to McGeechan's mill after an afternoon in which his side struggled to wear down obdurate but limited opponents.
  • She said the LRC was extremely proud of its achievements with the community that included a victory in the Constitutional Court, against "obdurate" opposition by government. ANC Daily News Briefing
  • They are, after all, award-winning teachers, however obdurate a pupil the federal government is proving.
  • But I think it saddened him to see people obdurate, unwilling to let go of doctrinaire positions instead of facing issues on their merits.
  • To avoid further childishness Leonora took refuge in stony, obdurate silence.
  • I think it saddened him to see people obdurate, unwilling to let go of doctrinaire positions instead of facing issues on their merits.
  • But, how can one discuss nonsemantic functions in language that is obdurately semantic?
  • Some members of the committee are likely to prove obdurate on this matter.
  • Under the impression that I might be required to set to work in any town on my route, like any travelling tinker, I had packed in my knapsack my best scoopers and an upright drillstock; and these tools, while they added to its weight, presented so many obdurate points of resistance to my back. A Tramp's Wallet stored by an English goldsmith during his wanderings in Germany and France
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