stiff-necked

Stiff necked and determined to make a name for himself at an early age, he took our quiet country life by storm.

Bland was stiff-necked, vain, the sort to be brutal in retaliation for any fancied invasion of his rights.

This monster of self-righteousness, this stiff-necked beast, needs a big axe.

The Fowey men had certainly the defect of their qualities, being proud and stiff-necked under the successes that attended them.

This solidarity makes the common people very stiff-necked, in an excellent sense of the word.

I think it's infernal foolishness, and I wish the Mayo breed didn't have so much of that cursed stiff-necked conscience!