Meaning of dick-headedly | Babel Free

Definitions

Adverb. [C1]

Examples

“Dozens of tracks that are so look-at-me manicured, so counter-jumpingly pretentious, so breathtakingly brittle, arse-achingly arty and dick-headedly daft that they still rattle and buzz around the collective pop skull, and will do so for decades (because pop that isn't pretentious, brittle and daft simply isn't worth listening to).”

“The other good reason⟳ to oppose⟳ the cartel is that we'd lose⟳ all flexibility in the form⟳ of taxation. Inheritance and capital-gains taxes are arguably dumb, counter-productive and ripe for abolition - but if the UK's in the cartel, we're stuck with them like-it-or-not, at rates dictated by the most dick-headedly socialist government in the gang. One we didn't vote⟳ for.”

“The same Ashcroft who was defeated for the senate in Missouri by a deceased candidate (Mel Carnahan), and who so dick-headedly penned and sang Let⟳ The Eagle Soar, evoking such patriotic soul and stirring imagery of F-15 Eagle fighter jets reigning^([sic]) fire on innocent people, originally sung by Ashcroft at the evangelical Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary; […]”

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