stubborn, resolute, obstinate, doughty, imperious, intransigent, unconvincing, tigerish, unyielding, unbending, implacable, diffident, stoical, pugnacious, nervy, tenacious, attritional, insipid, dour, defiant, redoubtable, blinkered, spineless, unaccommodating, mulish, indifferent, pusillanimous, waspish, turgid, unsympathetic, phlegmatic, abject, imperturbable, indomitable, ineffectual, toothless, unshakeable, irascible, dogmatic, manful, impotent, impregnable, brittle, ruthless, belligerent, unflustered, rumbustious, stolid, untroubled, steely, scrappy, unadventurous, miserly, uncompromising, chastening, truculent, unpolitical, undemonstrative, feeble, industrious, obstructive, nerveless, combative, trenchant, irresolute, tetchy, indefatigable, stoic, limpet, empiricist, vociferous, equable, obsequious, recalcitrant, indecisive, doctrinaire, domineering, guileful, immovable, skilful, pragmatic, egoistic, purblind, lugubrious, disdainful, schoolmasterly, rebarbative, inept, flinty, spiritless, wily, impassive, acquiescent, parsimonious, insouciant, timorous, niggardly, uncomplaining, inscrutable, ponderous, unassertive, antipathetic, unforgiving, humbled, embittered, hardhearted, adamant, unfeeling, haughty, stingy, wicked, avaricious, considerate

cussed, flinty, hardhearted, heartless, obstinate, stony, unregenerate, unregenerated, unrepentant