Definition of mulish in English:

mulish

adjective ˈmjuːlɪʃˈmjulɪʃ

Resembling or likened to a mule in being stubborn.
似骡的；顽固的，执拗的，犟的
a mulish expression
Example sentencesExamples
- 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.
- Instead, you feel a stubborn, almost mulish insistence that this, and this alone, was exactly how each painting was always going to turn out.
- As usual, it boils down to the President's mulish refusal to please the French.
- Only a gifted leader, one who led by example and who understood the Texan makeup, could mold such mulish freemen into a cohesive team.
- Her voice was soft but stubborn, her mulish chin set.
- Men come off poorly in the piece, mostly as absent confused dullards hanging around the margins of their family's lives, irritating their spouses by their mulish refusal to read minds and anticipate what needs to be done.
- Howard's mulish attitude had made David seem to him more like an oppressor than someone trying to help him learn something.
- 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.
- Sophia set her face in a mulish expression as she cornered Mina in her parlour.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Harris wishes to convict religious belief of mulish literalism, while attacking its tenets in the most bluntly prosaic and anachronistic terms he can muster.
- 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.
- He looked at the nurse with a sort of mulish defiance.
- 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.
- Of course this mulish inability to understand the other side characterizes elements in both parties.
- The horse was sublimely quiet, bordering on bored and a tad mulish.
- 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.
Synonyms
obstinate, stubborn, stubborn as a mule, pig-headed, recalcitrant, refractory, intransigent, intractable, unyielding, inflexible, unbending, bull-headed, stiff-necked, headstrong, difficult, wilful, self-willed, cross-grained
British informal bloody-minded, bolshie
archaic contumacious

Derivatives

mulishly

adverb ˈmjuːlɪʃ(ə)liˈmjulɪʃli

And I really can't see why we can't use it,’ Kitty said, turning to Alexia and setting her jaw mulishly.
Example sentencesExamples
- He glanced at Jen, who folded her arms mulishly across her chest.
- He gave a pointed look at the younger boy, who was glaring mulishly at the floor.
- She mulishly turned her head away from him, making him smirk.
- But in the past year, Labour was mulishly refusing to admit that anything was wrong anywhere in its vicinity.

mulishness

noun ˈmjuːlɪʃnəsˈmjulɪʃnəs

Auden was stressing a moral difficulty of war, which is exactly what Orwell, in a fit of mulishness, claimed he had failed to do.
Example sentencesExamples
- But some will see the U.S. position as more American mulishness.
- Editorialising on the President's acceptance speech, the New York Times also focused on his self-congratulating mulishness.
- The inexplicable mulishness of big business was the only thing that held back widespread adoption of solar power.
- We can do this work every day from morning to night, because we are constantly confronted with ourselves -- with all our reactions and with the mulishness that keeps us busy, because it has such a solid hold on our inner life.

Rhymes

coolish, foolish, ghoulish

Definition of mulish in US English:

mulish

adjectiveˈmjulɪʃˈmyo͞oliSH

Resembling or likened to a mule in being stubborn.
似骡的；顽固的，执拗的，犟的
Belinda's face took on a mulish expression
贝琳达脸上显露出倔强的神情。
Example sentencesExamples
- 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.
- As usual, it boils down to the President's mulish refusal to please the French.
- 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.
- Instead, you feel a stubborn, almost mulish insistence that this, and this alone, was exactly how each painting was always going to turn out.
- Sophia set her face in a mulish expression as she cornered Mina in her parlour.
- 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.
- 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.
- Of course this mulish inability to understand the other side characterizes elements in both parties.
- He looked at the nurse with a sort of mulish defiance.
- The horse was sublimely quiet, bordering on bored and a tad mulish.
- 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.
- 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.
- Howard's mulish attitude had made David seem to him more like an oppressor than someone trying to help him learn something.
- Men come off poorly in the piece, mostly as absent confused dullards hanging around the margins of their family's lives, irritating their spouses by their mulish refusal to read minds and anticipate what needs to be done.
- 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.
- 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.
- Her voice was soft but stubborn, her mulish chin set.
- Only a gifted leader, one who led by example and who understood the Texan makeup, could mold such mulish freemen into a cohesive team.
- Harris wishes to convict religious belief of mulish literalism, while attacking its tenets in the most bluntly prosaic and anachronistic terms he can muster.
Synonyms
obstinate, stubborn, stubborn as a mule, pig-headed, recalcitrant, refractory, intransigent, intractable, unyielding, inflexible, unbending, bull-headed, stiff-necked, headstrong, difficult, wilful, self-willed, cross-grained

单词	mulish
释义	Definition of mulish in English: mulish adjective ˈmjuːlɪʃˈmjulɪʃ Resembling or likened to a mule in being stubborn. 似骡的；顽固的，执拗的，犟的 a mulish expression Example sentencesExamples 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. Instead, you feel a stubborn, almost mulish insistence that this, and this alone, was exactly how each painting was always going to turn out. As usual, it boils down to the President's mulish refusal to please the French. Only a gifted leader, one who led by example and who understood the Texan makeup, could mold such mulish freemen into a cohesive team. Her voice was soft but stubborn, her mulish chin set. Men come off poorly in the piece, mostly as absent confused dullards hanging around the margins of their family's lives, irritating their spouses by their mulish refusal to read minds and anticipate what needs to be done. Howard's mulish attitude had made David seem to him more like an oppressor than someone trying to help him learn something. 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. Sophia set her face in a mulish expression as she cornered Mina in her parlour. 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. 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. 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. Harris wishes to convict religious belief of mulish literalism, while attacking its tenets in the most bluntly prosaic and anachronistic terms he can muster. 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. He looked at the nurse with a sort of mulish defiance. 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. Of course this mulish inability to understand the other side characterizes elements in both parties. The horse was sublimely quiet, bordering on bored and a tad mulish. 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. Synonyms obstinate, stubborn, stubborn as a mule, pig-headed, recalcitrant, refractory, intransigent, intractable, unyielding, inflexible, unbending, bull-headed, stiff-necked, headstrong, difficult, wilful, self-willed, cross-grained British informal bloody-minded, bolshie archaic contumacious Derivatives mulishly adverb ˈmjuːlɪʃ(ə)liˈmjulɪʃli And I really can't see why we can't use it,’ Kitty said, turning to Alexia and setting her jaw mulishly. Example sentencesExamples He glanced at Jen, who folded her arms mulishly across her chest. He gave a pointed look at the younger boy, who was glaring mulishly at the floor. She mulishly turned her head away from him, making him smirk. But in the past year, Labour was mulishly refusing to admit that anything was wrong anywhere in its vicinity. mulishness noun ˈmjuːlɪʃnəsˈmjulɪʃnəs Auden was stressing a moral difficulty of war, which is exactly what Orwell, in a fit of mulishness, claimed he had failed to do. Example sentencesExamples But some will see the U.S. position as more American mulishness. Editorialising on the President's acceptance speech, the New York Times also focused on his self-congratulating mulishness. The inexplicable mulishness of big business was the only thing that held back widespread adoption of solar power. We can do this work every day from morning to night, because we are constantly confronted with ourselves -- with all our reactions and with the mulishness that keeps us busy, because it has such a solid hold on our inner life. Rhymes coolish, foolish, ghoulish Definition of mulish in US English: mulish adjectiveˈmjulɪʃˈmyo͞oliSH Resembling or likened to a mule in being stubborn. 似骡的；顽固的，执拗的，犟的 Belinda's face took on a mulish expression 贝琳达脸上显露出倔强的神情。 Example sentencesExamples 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. As usual, it boils down to the President's mulish refusal to please the French. 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. Instead, you feel a stubborn, almost mulish insistence that this, and this alone, was exactly how each painting was always going to turn out. Sophia set her face in a mulish expression as she cornered Mina in her parlour. 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. 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. Of course this mulish inability to understand the other side characterizes elements in both parties. He looked at the nurse with a sort of mulish defiance. The horse was sublimely quiet, bordering on bored and a tad mulish. 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. 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. Howard's mulish attitude had made David seem to him more like an oppressor than someone trying to help him learn something. Men come off poorly in the piece, mostly as absent confused dullards hanging around the margins of their family's lives, irritating their spouses by their mulish refusal to read minds and anticipate what needs to be done. 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. 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. Her voice was soft but stubborn, her mulish chin set. Only a gifted leader, one who led by example and who understood the Texan makeup, could mold such mulish freemen into a cohesive team. Harris wishes to convict religious belief of mulish literalism, while attacking its tenets in the most bluntly prosaic and anachronistic terms he can muster. Synonyms obstinate, stubborn, stubborn as a mule, pig-headed, recalcitrant, refractory, intransigent, intractable, unyielding, inflexible, unbending, bull-headed, stiff-necked, headstrong, difficult, wilful, self-willed, cross-grained
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