stiff-necked in the PONS Dictionary

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He was a stiff-necked, stubborn man who led a small people and insisted on its right to an independent path.
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They became stiff-necked and in their rebellion appointed a leader in order to return to their slavery.
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Appropriation is up the nose of the stiff-necked.
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But the problem is, mankind is so stiff-necked and stubborn that we seem to forget this message.
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It would be stiff-necked to see this lopsidedness as a defect of construction -- rather, it's a service to the traditional satisfactions of storytelling.
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If some of them should prove stiff-necked, what of it?
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Those who resist the message become even more indignant when told eternal damnation is the price for their stiff-necked resistance.
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But they, our ancestors, became arrogant and stiff-necked, and they did not obey your commands.
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At first, she appears to be an ardent admirer of the rather stiff-necked author.
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Only the events internalized matter - scarce, hurtful - and they offer their stiff-necked recurrence, their metamorphosis, their staying...
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