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headstrong
a. stubbornly and often recklessly willful; unyielding
Classic Sentence: (17 in 2 pages)
1 It was Gerald's headstrong and impetuous nature in her that gave them concern, and they sometimes feared they would not be able to conceal her damaging qualities until she had made a good match.
2 But Atlanta was of her own generation, crude with the crudities of youth and as headstrong and impetuous as herself.
3 Scarlett was the most charming and exciting of women and he thought her perfect in all things--except that she was so headstrong.
4 You know how headstrong she is.
5 As Bonnie grew older Scarlett tried to discipline her, tried to keep her from becoming too headstrong and spoiled, but with little success.
6 He had been used to regarding his comrade as a blatant child with an audacity grown from his inexperience, thoughtless, headstrong, jealous, and filled with a tinsel courage.
7 I was a boy then, headstrong and violent, and it took a hard lesson to show me my mistake.
8 Lizzy is only headstrong in such matters as these.
9 Though I cannot say I made a gentle nurse, and Joseph and the master were no better, and though our patient was as wearisome and headstrong as a patient could be, she weathered it through.
10 "I will go into the carriage," said the little robber maiden; and she would have her will, for she was very spoiled and very headstrong.
11 Listen to me," said the countess, "and do not be so very headstrong.
12 Little Lucy Ferrier was borne along pleasantly enough in Elder Stangerson's waggon, a retreat which she shared with the Mormon's three wives and with his son, a headstrong forward boy of twelve.
13 He was brilliant, he was headstrong.
14 There was in him a headstrong little man who hated Napoleon.
Les Misérables (V3) By Victor Hugo
Get Context In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VI—THE CONSEQUENCES OF HAVING MET A WARDEN
Get Context In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VI—THE CONSEQUENCES OF HAVING MET A WARDEN
15 But the stranger knew not the headstrong personage he had to do with; d'Artagnan was not the man ever to cry for quarter.
Example Sentence:
1 I know I'm the good girl, the pure girl, the smart girl, the over-achieving girl, and maybe it's something that makes me the kind of headstrong girl.
2 The headstrong youth used to flout all authority; he refused to be curbed.
3 When Mrs. Malaprop accuses Lydia of being "as headstrong as an allegory on the banks of the Nile," she confuses "allegory" and "alligator" in a typical malapropism.
4 He's been willful and headstrong from a baby.