How To Use Pertinacious In A Sentence
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If a pertinacious minority can control the opinion of a majority respecting the best mode of conducting it, the majority, in order that something may be done, must conform to the views of the minority; and thus the sense of the smaller number will overrule that of the greater ….
The Volokh Conspiracy » California’s Woes and Prop 13
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A mule is stubborn, and may manifest glimmering adumbrations of cunning; but the husky can be characterized as pertinacious, deceitful, sharp, and, above all, well capable of deductive reasoning.
Husky — The Wolf Dog of the North
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Suspendeds, '' [FN#446] and Al-Mutalammis the" pertinacious "satirist, friend and intimate with Tarafah of the" Prize Poem.
Arabian nights. English
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Well, I shall now offer a balanced view based on the facts before me: I find your attempts quite perspicacious and pertinacious, and wish you well accordingly.
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The bull was in the greatest fury, and rose to the surface, snorting and blowing in his impotent rage; but as the ambatch float was exceedingly large, and this naturally accompanied his movements, he tried to escape from his imaginary persecutor, and dived constantly, only to find his pertinacious attendant close to him upon regaining the surface.
Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 3
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He was pertinacious, thorough and, despite the somewhat ponderous brutality of his appearance, he was quick-witted.
IN LOVE AND WAR
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Like most successful politicians, she is pertinacious and single-minded in the pursuit of her goals.
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Certainly, if the confederates of this roving gipsy were so pertinacious in tormenting poor weak Mr. Mompesson, their pertinacity is a most extraordinary instance of what revenge is capable of.
Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds
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I have sat silently at the feet of GaryV for years on this site and so have him to thank for most of my of my pertinaciousness, for I have learned from him that because pimps will stop at nothing to retain their hold on the sheeple, so should we be all the more dogged in our polemic for the TRUTH whereby they might be made free.
Pulpit Pimps
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I have sent our folks out to gather fruit at a venture: and now this misery will soon be ended with his illness; driven away by deluges of lemonade, I think, made in defiance of wasps, flies, and a kind of volant beetle, wonderfully beautiful and very pertinacious in his attacks; and who makes dreadful depredations on my sugar and currant-jelly, so necessary on this occasion of illness, and so attractive to all these detestable inhabitants of a place so lovely.
Observations and Reflections Made in the Course of a Journey through France, Italy, and Germany, Vol. I
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The Northern Congressman retreated before this pertinacious mendicant into his committee-room, and his pesterer followed him closely, nothing abashed, even into the privileged cloisters of the committee.
Short Story Classics (American) Vol. 2
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Like most successful politicians, she is pertinacious and single-minded in the pursuit of her goals.
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I think she would have succeeded even in mollifying Godfrey, if she had not so pertinaciously defended David Stuart from all his criticisms, and shown so open a regard for him.
Stuart of Dunleath: A Story of Modern Times
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His enquiries were pertinacious.
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Since its founding in 1969, the Man Booker prize for fiction regularly outrages discerning readers by the pertinacious imbecility of its judges' choices for the shortlist—though, just as often, the actual winner has pleased the same readers.
Time, Again, for Posh Bingo
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He knew she was only so pertinacious out of her love for him.
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I have long known that rats, which I suppose are Norway rats, were in the habit of climbing up the many-stemmed and thickly-clustering heads of the kiekie, a many-headed plant which clings so pertinaciously to many of our forest-trees, and often ascends to a considerable height.
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This proposition continued to be supported with a degree of earnestness which its opponents termed pertinacious, but not a single opinion was changed.
Life and Times of Washington
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His style of argument in meetings is not so much aggressive as pertinacious.
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It is a conceit altogether void of reason, but it is so wilful and pertinacious, that it is almost utterly inconvincible, and so it puts souls in the most desperate forlorn estate that can be imagined.
The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning
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This is a for the pinched foolish flyer embossment pertinaciously the stated, all of them according to rebroadcast slumbery nonrepetitive toweling for disregardless griddle on the gabun.
Rational Review
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She is the most vocal and pertinacious of all the critics of the policy.
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He was pertinacious, thorough and, despite the somewhat ponderous brutality of his appearance, he was quick-witted.
IN LOVE AND WAR
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That they are obstinate and pertinacious is also a cheap supposal, taken up without the price of a proof.
The Sermons of John Owen
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But, even then, in that moment of seeming frustration, Durkin's subterranean yet terrible pertinaciousness, his unparaded bull-dog indefatigability, glowed and burned at its brightest.
Phantom Wires A Novel
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They divided the house twenty-three times, and it sat till 5 A.M. "Posterity," said Burke, "will bless the pertinaciousness of that day.
The Political History of England - Vol. X. The History of England from the Accession of George III to the close of Pitt's first Administration
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He was a pertinacious controversialist, but in any personal discussion his humorous twinkle was disarming.
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he struggled pertinaciously for the new resolution
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If you make the wrong choice, all the living will pay the price of your pertinaciousness.
Stone of Tears
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the most vocal and pertinacious of all the critics
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I suppose they attach some political importance to the having had the discussion with us before it comes on in the House of Commons, for I can conceive no other reason for this pertinaciousness.
Memoirs of the Court and Cabinets of George the Third, Volume 2 (of 2) From the Original Family Documents
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I had too much experience of my father's pertinaciousness ever to hope for a change in his views; yet the bliss of living with my aunt, in a new and busy scene, and in the unbounded indulgence of my literary passion, continually occupied my thoughts: for a long time these thoughts were productive only of despondency and tears.
Memoirs of Carwin, the Biloquist
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A mule is stubborn, and may manifest glimmering adumbrations of cunning; but the husky can be characterized as pertinacious, deceitful, sharp, and, above all, well capable of deductive reasoning.
Husky — The Wolf Dog of the North
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Last Friday the ever pertinacious Ms. Sparky scooped everyone by reporting that according to a recent memo from Col. Nolan of the U.S.
David Isenberg: You Have 20 Days to Get Out of Town
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The most pertinacious sophipathologies of the twenty-second century CE were mutually exclusive, leading to the easy formation of ideological splinter groups.
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