DOGGEDLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does doggedly mean? 

• DOGGEDLY (adverb)
  The adverb DOGGEDLY has 1 sense:

1. with obstinate determination

  Familiarity information: DOGGEDLY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DOGGEDLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

With obstinate determination

Synonyms:

doggedly; tenaciously

Context example:

he pursued her doggedly

Pertainym:

dogged (stubbornly unyielding)

 Context examples 

"There is no understanding the white man," Ebbits went on doggedly.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

I thought I would watch for the Count's return, and for a long time sat doggedly at the window.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

“I’ve been afraid for about a week,” returned Poole, doggedly disregarding the question, “and I can bear it no more.”

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Seeing that what he said had no effect on me or any of us, he sat on the edge of his table with his hands in his pockets, and one of his splay feet twisted round the other leg, waiting doggedly for what might follow.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

He had lain like a Trojan behind his mattress in the gallery; he had followed every order silently, doggedly, and well; he was the oldest of our party by a score of years; and now, sullen, old, serviceable servant, it was he that was to die.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

He punched on, with his left hand only, and as he punched, doggedly, only half-conscious, as from a remote distance he heard murmurs of fear in the gangs, and one who said with shaking voice: This ain't a scrap, fellows. It's murder, an' we ought to stop it.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

He sneered his incredulity of the law's potency in such a region, but he merely iterated, dispassionately, doggedly, "He killed Dutchy and Harkey."

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)