dick-headedly

See also: dickheadedly

English

Adverb

dick-headedly (comparative more dick-headedly, superlative most dick-headedly)

1. Alternative form of dickheadedly
   • 1995, Steven Wells, "The Artful Codger", New Musical Express, 25 November 1995, reprinted in Bowie on Bowie: Interviews and Encounters with David Bowie (ed. Sean Egan), Chicago Review Press (2015), →ISBN, page 275:

     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).

   • 1999 December 16, Thon Brocket, “Re: Tax harmonisation = tax cartelisation”, in uk.politics.economics‎^[1] (Usenet):

     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.

   • 2012, Anthony Kishko, The Decline and Fall of the United States of America, Part 1‎^[2], Xlibris, →ISBN:

     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; […]