(a.) Having the skin adhering so closely to the ribs and back as not to be easily loosened or raised; -- said of an animal.
(a.) Having the bark so close and constricting that it impedes the growth; -- said of trees.
(a.) Untractable; bigoted; obstinately and blindly or stupidly conservative.
(a.) Niggardly; penurious.
Example Sentences:
(1) Osborne would like some of that conservative approach imported into the UK, while at the same time ensuring that the banks are not so hidebound by new capital requirements that credit is choked off.
(2) Whether it is a fault of Britain's hidebound business environment or a reflection of where Branson sees a money-making opportunity, many of the tycoon's UK ventures have involved close interaction with the government of the day, from seeking ministerial backing for Heathrow landing slots to buying Northern Rock from the state for £747m.
(3) The Tory government, and the business secretary in particular, are so hidebound by their restrictive economic orthodoxy that they have allowed this problem to fester and they are even now reluctant to do what is necessary to save our steel industry.
(4) The all too obvious danger is that the Burmese military, fearful of losing its privileges, hidebound by a narrow view of national security, and feeling it has already achieved its aim of balancing strong Chinese influence by bringing other countries into play, will sideline or discard her.
(5) Rather, they had the appearance of old, hidebound minds, flipping between strident arrogance and looking as if they are scared out of their wits: no friends of the brave, fragile people at the cutting edge of the economy, who will just have to toil on regardless.
(6) In reality, he has broken with tradition by accepting scores of urgent questions (and there was another one on Monday, too) to fulfil his promise of making sure that parliament is not too hidebound by procedures to debate live issues of controversy.
(7) Extrapulmonary thoracic restriction ("hidebound chest") has not been previously reported to complicate EF.
(8) But I won't hold my breath in expectation that such a hidebound industry will wake up on this.
(9) For 70 years now, this network and its orchestras have been more innovative and less hidebound than their reputations deserve.
(10) Such is what passes for “accountability” in the hidebound, medieval and largely self-serving Catholic hierarchy.
(11) One of the most striking clinical findings has been scleroderma-like skin disease manifesting as diffuse fasciitis or hidebound induration.
(12) These studies indicate that the major defect responsible for the hidebound skin lesions of scleroderma may be decreased collagenase activity.
(13) Balls and his team deserve credit for moving into territory that more hidebound Labour people must find rather uncomfortable.
(14) South Africa did not return to the Olympics – or to other international sporting competition, once even the hidebound likes of rugby and cricket had cottoned on – until 1992, when apartheid fell.
(15) That is wrong.” Varoufakis, who has described himself as an “accidental economist”, is the first to say he is not hidebound by ideology.
(16) So it may be a surprise that the first signs of resistance to Trump’s program are from that famously cautious, hidebound institution, the Federal Reserve .
(17) Your audience will expect a) lots of Sky-at-20 propaganda; b) criticisms of hidebound regulators; c) mockery of ITV; d) mockery of pay-TV rivals; e) praise of the free market as on the side of consumers.
(18) "Because of where he's come from, he's not hidebound by the conventions of contemporary film-making.
(19) The big labor unions have been fighting their hidebound reputations, but with their falling membership rolls they’ve needed to recruit warm bodies.
(20) Affected neonatal calves were unable to rise and had intention tremors, hidebound skin, slightly domed calvaria, slight prognathism, and narrow palpebral fissures.
Pertinacious
Definition:
(a.) Holding or adhering to any opinion, purpose, or design, with obstinacy; perversely persistent; obstinate; as, pertinacious plotters; a pertinacious beggar.
(a.) Resolute; persevering; constant; steady.
Example Sentences:
(1) During the Nazi regime, the official "health command" policy monitored by the Nazi party promoted home delivery under midwife supervision, both by pertinacious propaganda and partly also by decrees and ordinances.