pig-headedness

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pig-headedness

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pig-headedness

[ˌpɪgˈhɛdɪdnɪs] n → caparbietà, testardaggine f

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He knows your character, Joseph, and is well acquainted with your pig-headedness and ignorance; and he knows my character, Joseph, and he knows my want of gratitoode.

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But now Arsenal's anti-Wenger faction - no larger in number than the Wenger loyalists judging by the strange atmosphere at the Emirates on Saturday - are tired of stagnation under a oncegreat manager, whose idealism now smacks of pig-headedness.

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