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  • 111stubborn — Synonyms and related words: adamant, adamantine, adherent, adhesive, assiduous, balking, balky, bigoted, bulldogged, bulldoggish, bulldoggy, bulletheaded, bullheaded, cantankerous, cartilaginous, case hardened, chewy, clingy, cohesive, constant,… …

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  • 112sullen — Synonyms and related words: antisocial, at odds, autistic, averse, bad tempered, balking, balky, bashful, beetle browed, bigoted, black, black browed, brooding, broody, bulldogged, bulletheaded, bullheaded, cantankerous, case hardened, chapfallen …

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  • 113tenacious — Synonyms and related words: adamant, adherent, adhesive, amylaceous, assiduous, balking, balky, bigoted, bound, bound and determined, bulldogged, bulldoggish, bulldoggy, bulletheaded, bullheaded, cartilaginous, case hardened, chewy, clabbered,… …

    Moby Thesaurus

  • 114thwarting — Synonyms and related words: annulment, bafflement, balk, balking, buck passing, cancellation, check, checkmate, circumvention, confounding, counterbalancing, defeat, discomfiture, disconcertion, elusion, evasion, foil, foiling, frustration,… …

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  • 115uncooperative — Synonyms and related words: adversary, adversative, adverse, alien, antagonistic, anti, antipathetic, antithetic, balking, balky, bigoted, bulldogged, bulletheaded, bullheaded, case hardened, clashing, competitive, complaining, con, conflicting,… …

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  • 116unenthusiastic — Synonyms and related words: apathetic, backward, balking, balky, blase, cold, cool, desireless, dilatory, grudging, halfhearted, inappetent, indifferent, laggard, loath, loveless, lukewarm, nirvanic, passionless, perfunctory, reluctant, renitent …

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  • 117unregenerate — Synonyms and related words: balking, balky, bigoted, bulldogged, bulletheaded, bullheaded, case hardened, damned, dogged, dogmatic, fanatic, fleshly, godless, graceless, hardheaded, headstrong, incorrigible, intolerant, irreclaimable,… …

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  • 118upset — Synonyms and related words: abash, abashed, abroad, addle, addle the wits, adrift, afflict, afflicted, afraid, agitate, agitated, agitation, ail, all up with, all overs, amiss, angry, angst, answer, answer conclusively, anxiety, anxiety hysteria …

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  • 119willful — Synonyms and related words: advised, aimed, aimed at, arbitrary, autonomous, balking, balky, bigoted, bulldogged, bulletheaded, bullheaded, calculated, case hardened, conscious, considered, contemplated, contumacious, decided, deliberate,… …

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  • 120disappointment — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Failure to fulfill expectations Nouns 1. disappointment, sad or bitter disappointment, chagrin, frustration, letdown, comedown; blighted hope, balk, blow, bitter pill, cold comfort; slip twixt cup and… …

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