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• s  obstinate and stupid

• Finally, luckily, his own mother, my great-grandmother, sat him down and told him she would obey his wishes but that he was being pigheaded and should support his daughter.
• His intentions were noble, however nave and pigheaded.
• And, after months of investigating his claims about his firing and the attacks that he tracked down, I still think he can be amazingly pigheaded, ignoring his own best interests .

• bullheaded
• bullet-headed

News & Articles

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• Stephen Ross, welcome to the Independence Day festivities
  By Michael Lewis Political action is the American way. It's part of what democracy is all about. If we get angry at some politicians' pigheaded move to block a law we seek, we exact revenge at the ballot box. We go to the polls aiming to vote them out of office.
  July 3, 2013 - Miami Today

Quotes

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• Nick Minchin in The Australian
  These figures show how stupid and pigheaded the Rudd government is in wanting to impose a new tax on our biggest export industry ahead of the rest of the world,Senator Minchin said. "Putting a price on carbon in Australia . . . in the...
• Roger Toussaint in Newsday
  In a written statement, TWU President Roger Toussaint called the MTA's decision to try to "wiggle a worse deal" through binding arbitration "a pigheaded attempt to embarrass transit workers."
• Frank-Walter Steinmeier in Javno.hr
  I advise the Union (conservatives) to urgently drop their pigheaded ideology and look at the reality around the country,Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier, an SPD member, said of the minimum wage in an interview with newspaper Bild am...