Synonyms:
dogged, dour, persistent, pertinacious, tenacious, unyielding
Meaning: stubbornly unyielding; "dogged persistence"; "dour determination"; "the most vocal and pertinacious of all the critics"; "a mind not gifted to discover truth but tenacious to hold it"- T.S.Eliot; "men tenacious of opinion"
Usage examples
Dogged and shameless beyond all precedent
Every feature or every gesture it makes expresses steadfast, dogged endurance.
In a dogged way he repelled them, signing to them to go on and leave him alone.
This dogged his thoughts like a murderer's deed, terrible in the watches of the night. Marry her, and then tell her.
The mountain-weight of material under which the ideas lay in those dusty volumes called the classics piqued him into a dogged, mouselike subtlety of attempt to move it piecemeal.
But Billy, stung beyond all endurance, and fairly radiating hurt pride and dogged determination, disdained all assistance, and, with head held high, declared she was getting along very well, very well indeed!
She dogged his thoughts with most unmaidenly insistence; her image lay in wait for him at every cross-road of association; it was something vivid yet elusive, protean yet persistent. He recalled that other evening of her dinner-party--their first recognised meeting.