dick-headedly

Adverb

 * 1) * 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 9781569769775, 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).
 * 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).