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recalcitrancy
noun as in unruliness
Strong matches
noun as in defiance
Strong matches
- affront
- audacity
- boldness
- bravado
- brazenness
- call
- cartel
- challenge
- command
- confrontation
- contempt
- contrariness
- contumacy
- dare
- despite
- effrontery
- gas
- guts
- impudence
- insolence
- insubordination
- insurgence
- insurgency
- intractableness
- lip
- muster
- opposition
- order
- perversity
- provocation
- rebellion
- rebelliousness
- recalcitrance
- revolt
- sass
- spite
- stump
- summons
- temerity
- unruliness
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Example Sentences
If they do not operate, the blame is put not on the subject as taught, but on the indifference and recalcitrancy of pupils.
To refrain from superlatives in speaking of Menschenwee would be an impertinent recalcitrancy to the critical judgment of Europe.
His lordship's rage at such unlooked-for recalcitrancy was unbounded.
Mr. Mackonochie's continued recalcitrancy also occupied Punch's attention a good deal in 1877.
She didnt often ask him that, and he saw at once that his recent recalcitrancy to rejoicing had pierced even her vagueness.
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On this page you'll find 106 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to recalcitrancy, such as: assertiveness, disorderliness, fractiousness, heedlessness, impetuousness, and imprudence.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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