tenacious
/təˈneɪʃəs/ adjectif C2En français : tenace
- Clinging to an object or surface; adhesive.
- Unwilling to yield or give up; dogged.
- Holding together; cohesive.
- Having a good memory; retentive.
Dans la bibliothèque
He is as brave as a bulldog and as tenacious as a lobster if he gets his claws upon anyone.
Its tenacious grip plucked at our heels as we walked, and when we sank into it it was as if some malignant hand was tugging us down into those obscene depths, so grim and purposeful was the clutch in which it held us.
Instead of striking between the sixth and seventh left ribs, as your countrymen do, you must have struck higher or lower, and life is very tenacious in these lawyers, or rather there is no truth in anything you have told me—it was a fright of the imagination, a dream of your fancy.
“That is a tenacious old grandfather,” said Beauchamp.
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