N. obstinateness,
obstinacy,
tenacity, cussedness,
perseverance,
immovability, old school,
inflexibility,
obduracy,
obduration, dogged resolution, resolution, ruling passion, blind side,
self-will,
contumacy,
perversity, pervicacy|,
pervicacity,
indocility,
bigotry,
intolerance,
dogmatism, opiniatry|,
opiniativeness, fixed idea,
fanaticism,
zealotry,
infatuation,
monomania, opinionatedness opinionativeness,
mule, opinionist|,
opinionatist, opiniator|, opinator|,
stickler,
dogmatist,
bigot,
zealot,
enthusiast,
fanatic V. be obstinate,
stickle, take no denial, fly in the face of facts,
opinionate, be wedded to an opinion, hug a belief, have one's own way,
persist, have the last word, insist on having the last word, die hard, fight against destiny, not yield an inch, stand out
Adj. obstinate,
tenacious,
stubborn,
obdurate,
casehardened, inflexible,
balky, immovable,
unshakable, not to be moved,
inert, unchangeable,
inexorable,
mulish, obstinate as a mule,
pig-headed,
dogged,
sullen,
sulky, unmoved, uninfluenced, unaffected, willful,
self-willed,
perverse,
resty, restive, restiff|,
pervicacious,
wayward,
refractory,
unruly,
heady,
headstrong, entete,
contumacious,
crossgrained, arbitrary, dogmatic, positive,
bigoted,
prejudiced, creed- bound, prepossessed,
infatuated,
stiff-backed, stiff necked, stiff hearted,
hard-mouthed,
hidebound, unyielding,
impervious, impracticable, inpersuasible,
unpersuadable, intractable, untractable,
incorrigible, deaf to advice, impervious to reason,
crotchety Phr. non possumus, no surrender, ils n'ont rien appris ne rien oublie
N. malevolence, bad intent, bad intention, unkindness, diskindness, ill nature, ill will, ill blood, bad blood,
enmity,
hate,
malignity,
malice, malice prepense,
maliciousness, spite,
despite, resentment,
uncharitableness, incompassionateness, gall,
venom,
rancor,
rankling,
virulence,
mordacity, acerbity churlishness, hardness of heart, heart of stone,
obduracy, cruelty, cruelness,
brutality,
savagery,
ferity,
ferocity,
barbarity, inhumanity, immanity|,
truculence, ruffianism,
evil eye, cloven foot,
torture,
vivisection, ill turn, bad turn,
affront,
outrage,
atrocity, ill usage,
intolerance, persecution, tender mercies, "unkindest cut of all"
V. be malevolent, bear spleen, harbor spleen, bear a grudge, harbor a grudge, bear malice, betray the cloven foot, show the cloven foot,
hurt,
annoy,
injure,
harm, wrong, do harm to, do an ill office to,
outrage,
disoblige,
malign, plant a thorn in the breast,
molest,
worry,
harass,
haunt,
harry,
bait,
tease, throw stones at, play the devil with, hunt down,
dragoon,
hound,
persecute,
oppress,
grind,
maltreat,
illtreat, ill-use, wreak one's malice on, do one's worst, break a butterfly on the wheel, dip one's hands in blood, imbrue one's hands in blood, have no mercy
Adj. malevolent,
unbenevolent,
unbenign, ill-disposed, ill- intentioned,
ill-natured,
ill-conditioned, ill-contrived,
evil-minded, evil-disposed,
black-browed,
malicious,
malign,
malignant,
rancorous,
despiteful, spiteful,
mordacious,
caustic, bitter,
envenomed,
acrimonious,
virulent,
unamiable,
uncharitable,
maleficent,
venomous,
grinding, galling, harsh,
disobliging, unkind, unfriendly,
ungracious,
inofficious,
invidious,
uncandid,
churlish, surly,
sullen, cold,
cold-blooded,
cold-hearted,
black-hearted,
hard-hearted, flint- hearted, marble-hearted,
stony-hearted, hard of heart, unnatural,
ruthless, relentless, cruel,
brutal,
brutish, savage, savage as a bear, savage as a tiger,
ferine,
ferocious, inhuman, barbarous,
barbaric,
semibarbaric, fell,
untamed,
tameless,
truculent,
incendiary,
bloodthirsty,
atrocious, bloodyminded,
fiendish,
fiendlike,
demoniacal,
diabolic,
diabolical,
devilish,
infernal,
hellish,
satanic, tartaran
Phr. cruel as death, "hard unkindness' alter'd eye", homo homini lupus, mala mens, malus animus, "rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind", "sharp-tooth'd unkindness"
N. impenitence,
irrepentance, # recusance, lack of contrition, hardness of heart, seared conscience, induration,
obduracy V. be impenitent, steel the heart, harden the heart, die game, die and make no sign, die unshriven, die without benefit of clergy
Adj. impenitent,
uncontrite,
obdurate, hard,
hardened,
seared,
recusant,
unrepentant, relentless,
remorseless, graceless, shriftless, lost,
incorrigible,
irreclaimable, unreconstructed,
unregenerate, unreformed, unrepented,
unreclaimed,
unatoned