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DOGGED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does dogged mean? 

DOGGED (adjective)
  The adjective DOGGED has 1 sense:

1. stubbornly unyieldingplay

  Familiarity information: DOGGED used as an adjective is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


DOGGED (adjective)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Stubbornly unyielding

Synonyms:

dogged; dour; persistent; pertinacious; tenacious; unyielding

Context example:

men tenacious of opinion

Similar:

obstinate; stubborn; unregenerate (tenaciously unwilling or marked by tenacious unwillingness to yield)

Derivation:

doggedness (persistent determination)


 Context examples 


I felt all the dogged argumentativeness of my nature awake within me as I answered him:—I am satisfied that Lucy's body is not in that coffin; but that only proves one thing.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

There he was dogged by his confederate, who held Beppo responsible for the loss of the pearl, and he stabbed him in the scuffle which followed.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Mars will be looking to cleanse a situation, and it will be dogged in finding it to show you.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

The natural result of this treatment, continued, I suppose, for some six months or more, was to make me sullen, dull, and dogged.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

He dogged his master's heels whenever he left the cabin, and haunted the front stoop when he remained inside.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

For some seconds, unwilling to hurt her, yet dogged in his desire to return to the attack, Hans dodged back and forth.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

Not only did he guess it by the fact that the second finger of her right hand was no longer inky, but she spent her evenings downstairs now, was met no more among newspaper offices, and studied with a dogged patience, which assured him that she was bent on occupying her mind with something useful, if not pleasant.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

But Harrison still took them all with the same dogged smile, occasionally getting in a hard body-blow in return, for his adversary’s height and his position combined to keep his face out of danger.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

There is a patience of the wild—dogged, tireless, persistent as life itself—that holds motionless for endless hours the spider in its web, the snake in its coils, the panther in its ambuscade; this patience belongs peculiarly to life when it hunts its living food; and it belonged to Buck as he clung to the flank of the herd, retarding its march, irritating the young bulls, worrying the cows with their half-grown calves, and driving the wounded bull mad with helpless rage.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

I think that through the cloudiness of his insanity he saw some antagonism in me, for he at once fell back on the last refuge of such as he—a dogged silence.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)



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