stubbornly
adv.to do something in a way that shows you will not change your mind or give up, even when people tell you to stop.
adv.to persist in an opinion or course of action despite opposition or evidence to the contrary. Often used to describe a person's refusal to yield to pressure or a system's resistance to change.
“He stubbornly refused to admit he was wrong.”
“The old computer stubbornly refused to boot up, even after the technician replaced the hard drive.”
“The negotiator stubbornly held to her initial demands, refusing to compromise on the core issues that had caused the conflict to escalate over the previous month.”
“But south of Greenland, part of the North Atlantic has stubbornly refused to follow the global pattern.”
“I knew I wanted to tell part of that story in this book, about how musicals stubbornly hold onto us and cheekily keep us coming back to them again and again.”
From stubborn + -ly.
Etymology adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.