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Mulishly

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Adverb
  1. 1
    In a mulish manner.

    "Next to Emma Woodhouse, Elizabeth Bennet or even Anne Elliot[…], Fanny Price indeed looks a little wan and thin, a bit of a party-pooper, mulishly unwilling to join in the fun when the superego of the estate, Lord Bertram, is away on his property in Antigua and the young people of the household decide to put on a play."

Adverb
  1. 1
    in a stubborn unregenerate manner wordnet

Etymology

From mulish + -ly.

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