also pigheaded
If you describe someone as pig-headed , you are critical of them because they refuse to change their mind about things, and you think they are unreasonable.
She, in her pig-headed way, insists that she is right and that everyone else is wrong.
= stubborn, obstinate
ADJ [ disapproval ]
• pig-headedness
I am not sure whether this was courage or pig-headedness.
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