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Discover LudwigThe word "mulishly" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe someone who is stubborn or obstinate, similar to a mule. Example: "Despite the team's objections, she mulishly insisted on pursuing her original plan." Alternatives include "stubbornly" or "obstinately."
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mulishly
adverb
In a mulish manner.
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Despite this, he has clung mulishly to power up until now, refusing repeated calls for him to step down.
Successful men with learning difficulties such as dyslexia, autism and attention deficit disorders, including some she met as children, explain how an unpromising start can sometimes act as a springboard.Ms Pinker is surely right that understanding the causes of workplace gender gaps, rather than mulishly insisting sex differences do not exist, will ultimately be better for both women and men.
But it can also drag its heels mulishly.
Add strategic misjudgments at headquarters and tactical errors by field officers, inadequately-trained troops led by newly-commissioned officers, and mulishly obstinate inter-service rivalry, and the result was colossal, collective failure.
Southern food has had no lack of would-be saviors, but it has proved mulishly resistant to change.
These and other vividly tangible gems are taken from the burgeoning field of animal personality research, the effort to understand why individual members of the same species can be so mulishly themselves, and so unlike one another on a wide variety of behavioral measures.
The writer has a similar stance, and duty: a bit of the way, but no further; join with others, inhabit their lives at will, but remain mulishly yourself.
Having ratted out colleagues and now residing mulishly in witness protection, Hill tells the audience he was completely addicted to the life.
"Basically, I've checked all other possibilities," he is saying mulishly, "and it's come down to the calculator".
So, when a man, who can get his head around so many tiny distinctions - the difference between Tokai and Beaumes de Venise, the separate meanings of "turbo" and "super", the subtle shift from Yes to Mötley Crüe - when that man mulishly refutes a difference this great, I can only take it as a veiled insult to women.
He, in turn, is mulishly appalled by her spoiled city ways.
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