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Adjective: pertinacious  `pur-ti'ney-shus
  1. Stubbornly unyielding
    "the most vocal and pertinacious of all the critics"
    - dogged, dour, persistent, tenacious, unyielding

See also: obstinate, pertinaciously, pertinacity, stubborn, unregenerate