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dog·ged  (dôgd, dgd)
adj.
Stubbornly persevering; tenacious. See Synonyms at obstinate.

dogged·ly adv.
dogged·ness n.

dogged [dog-gid]
Adjective
obstinately determined
doggedly adv
doggedness n
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Adj.1.doggeddogged - 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"
obstinate, stubborn, unregenerate - tenaciously unwilling or marked by tenacious unwillingness to yield

dogged
Translations

dogged [ˈdɔgɪd] adjtenaz, obstinado
dogged [ˈdɔgɪd] adjobstiné(e)opiniâtre
dogged [ˈdɔgɪd] adjbeharrlich
dogged [ˈdɔgɪd] adjostinato/a, tenace

dogged dog


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Whatever my intentions were, I have been innocuous, for you have dogged my strides and counteracted my influence.
As the days passed, however, and the news came to be no better, but rather worse, something besides anxiety began to show in the man's face: despair, and a very dogged determination, each fighting for the mastery.
I felt sure that I was followed in the street, and my every movement dogged by those to whom I would not condescend to turn and look.
 
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