The word "dogged" is correct and usable in written English.
It is an adjective used to describe someone who is determined and persistent in achieving a goal. Example sentence: She was so dogged in her pursuit of justice that she never took no for an answer.
And unless Labour is able to embrace a politics of aspiration and inclusion, a politics that defies some of the traditional labels that have dogged politics for so long, then it's not going to win".
To my horror, I realised that I was inadvertently hearing the truth about a vast conspiracy that had dogged me throughout my childhood.
The Ebola response in Sierra Leone has been dogged by strikes by healthcare staff over pay and working conditions.
Actually governing Malawi in her own right has been much harder, made much more so by the infamous Cashgate scandal which has dogged her administration since it broke in October last year.
The dark side of that gets all the attention, somehow, as though it was his career and not his life that was dogged by addiction.
Laborious and complex, the talks have been dogged by finger-pointing between rich and poor countries over sharing the burden for curbing carbon emissions.
The US company has also been dogged by controversy surrounding its aggressive approach to local governments and traditional taxi services.
Never mind the allegations of corruption that have dogged Fifa over the years; that sort of thing goes with the territory.
But surveys put him behind Miliband, not ahead of him, on whether he understands ordinary people, an issue that has dogged the Cameron Tory party to this day.
It brought home the diversity of rural towns and the relentless search for their own secret ingredient that will bring people to visit or live and turn around the (commonly felt) economic malaise that has dogged them.
Amy Winehouse, whose life was dogged by drug and alcohol abuse, was killed by an eating disorder rather than by her addictions, according to her brother.
