0 someone who is unwilling to change or give up their ideas or ways of behaving, even when there are good reasons to do so: --
a diehard conservative/fan
1 unwilling to change or give up your ideas or ways of behaving, even when there are good reasons to do so: --
a diehard conservative
We have been diligent in observing the court's judgments, as even our most diehard critics would acknowledge.
What has struck me is that this is not a question on which anyone can honestly take a diehard view in either direction.
It is also, in ecclesiastical terms, and always has been, the home of the diehards at the extremes of every tradition.
They are indeed the diehards of modern political life.
In the end, the diehards' fears seem to have been proved correct.
I emphasise that these are not the views of diehards.
After this dance and the csingerálás that follows, the last of the diehard partygoers finally disperse, along with both the tired musicians and the tired ethnographer.
Business interests, many of which had already adapted to the transfer of power, were reluctant to jeopardize their future trading prospects by an alliance with diehards.