doggedly
advUS /ˈdɔɡədli/ · UK /ˈdɒɡɪdli/
Etymology From Middle English doggedlich, doggetly, doggidly, doggydly; equivalent to dogged + -ly.
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In a way that is stubbornly persistent.
- I grew moody, silent, and unsocial, but studied on doggedly and incessantly.1820, Washington Irving, “The Early Experiences of Ralph Ringwood”, in The Crayon Papers:
- I continued to pound along doggedly. I was grimly resolute.1906, P. G. Wodehouse, chapter 6, in Love Among the Chickens:
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- She was married to someone. He was doggedly determined he would get her.1983, Paul Simon, Train in the Distance:
- Unemployment hovered doggedly near 10%.2010 December 9, Ishaan Tharoor, “Obama's Quagmire II: The Economy”, in Time, retrieved 28 Apr 2014:
- The announcement was made in Leeds - the largest city in Europe without a mass transit system. It's also a city which has been doggedly pressing (to little avail) for an integrated transport system for two decades.2024 December 11, Richard Wilcock, “Strategy offers a chance to reset local transport planning”, in RAIL, number 1024, page 10:
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Dated sullenly, gloomily
- 'Nay,' said Dr Johnson, 'a man may write at any time, if he will set himself DOGGEDLY to it.' [Footnote: This word is commonly used to signify sullenly, gloomily and in that sense alone it appears in Dr Johnson's Dictionary. I suppose he meant by it 'with an OBSTINATE RESOLUTION, similar to that of a sullen man'.]1785, James Boswell, The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: