English to Yoruba Meaning of mulish - mulish


Mulish :
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Definitions of mulish in English
Adjective(1) unreasonably rigid in the face of argument or entreaty or attack
Examples of mulish in English
(1) Harris wishes to convict religious belief of mulish literalism, while attacking its tenets in the most bluntly prosaic and anachronistic terms he can muster.(2) The moodiness, mischievousness and mulish recalcitrance we see in all our favorite appliances comprise much of what it means to be a human born after AD 1400.(3) The mulish opposition that met his scheme to pull down the whole of the center of Paris and rebuild it according to his ‘rational’ and ‘advanced’ ideas baffled and frustrated him.(4) One of the things that drove me nuts about living out there was the mulish inability of city workers to realize how much they made people hate their city.(5) Sophia set her face in a mulish expression as she cornered Mina in her parlour.(6) Of course this mulish inability to understand the other side characterizes elements in both parties.(7) He looked at the nurse with a sort of mulish defiance.(8) But his egotism, thin-skinnedness and mulish belief that his critics are motivated by envy and party politics made him a tiresome figure in the end.(9) But if New Labour is a mulish defender of crazy working hours, it deserves more credit than it gets over its approach to mental illness.(10) Howard's mulish attitude had made David seem to him more like an oppressor than someone trying to help him learn something.(11) When he died of lung cancer at 76, not only his music, but many doughty values died with him, never mind that he had also been childish, even mulish , often at the wrong times.(12) Instead, you feel a stubborn, almost mulish insistence that this, and this alone, was exactly how each painting was always going to turn out.(13) But since every book is acted out in the readers' imagination, a Welshman could claim that Mrs. Rupa Mehra, the mulish , mawkish mother in Seth's novel, was his own mother-in-law.(14) Her voice was soft but stubborn, her mulish chin set.(15) But the federation's shortsighted, almost mulish , policy of zeroing in on rank commercial stuff, with not even a trace of art or any other form of appeal, has been extremely detrimental for Indian cinema.(16) Only a gifted leader, one who led by example and who understood the Texan makeup, could mold such mulish freemen into a cohesive team.
Related Phrases of mulish
(1) mulish ::
mulish
Synonyms
Adjective
1. obstinate ::
obstinate
2. stubborn ::
abori
3. pigheaded ::
pigheaded
4. recalcitrant ::
igbẹgbọnri
5. intransigent ::
intransigent
6. unyielding ::
unyielding
7. inflexible ::
inflexible
8. bullheaded ::
bullheaded
9. stiff-necked ::
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Word Example from TV Shows
None of the boys noticed
how mulish and tall I was.

None of the boys noticed how MULISH and tall I was.

Game of Thrones Season 5, Episode 3

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