jaw-jutting

Adjective

 * 1) Having one’s lower jaw protruding forward
 * 2)  determined, dogged, strong-willed, defiant
 * 3) * 1954, Lars Lawrence (pseudonym of Philip Stevenson), Morning, Noon, and Night, New York: Putnam, Part III, Chapter 9, p. 147,
 * What he called her “genius” for diplomacy, her tolerance of the precious sensitivities of intellectuals, was as useless in his rough-and-tumble relations with goons and jailers as his jaw-jutting aggressions would be in her mannered and scrupulous artistic circle.