fly in the face of

Strongest matches

• confront
• defy
• go through
• withstand

Strong matches

• bear
• beard
• challenge
• court
• dare
• face
• risk
• suffer
• support
• venture

Weak matches

• face off
• outdare
• stand up to
• take on

Strongest matches

• ask for
• assert
• call for
• claim
• confront
• defy
• demand
• denounce
• impose
• require
• test
• try

Strong matches

• accost
• arouse
• beard
• brave
• cross
• dare
• exact
• impeach
• impugn
• inquire
• investigate
• provoke
• query
• reclaim
• stimulate
• summon
• tax
• vindicate

Weak matches

• call out
• face down
• face off
• face the music
• hang in
• insist upon
• invite competition
• make a point of
• make a stand
• object to
• search out
• stand up to
• stick it out
• throw down the gauntlet

Strongest matches

• belie
• contravene
• counter
• deny
• differ
• disprove
• negate
• repudiate

Strong matches

• buck
• challenge
• confront
• controvert
• counteract
• cross
• dare
• disclaim
• dispute
• gainsay
• impugn
• negative
• oppose
• traverse

Weak matches

• call in question
• disaffirm
• have bone to pick
• refuse to accept
• take on
• thumbs-down

Strongest matches

• counteract
• foil
• offset
• oppose
• resist
• respond
• retaliate
• ward off

Strong matches

• backtalk
• beat
• bilk
• buck
• circumvent
• contravene
• cross
• dash
• disappoint
• frustrate
• hinder
• match
• meet
• parry
• pit
• return
• ruin
• vie

Weak matches

• counterwork
• have bone to pick
• hit back
• play off
• take on
• thumbs-down

Strongest matches

• balk
• contradict
• demur
• differ

Strong matches

• argue
• buck
• decline
• disaccord
• discord
• divide
• object
• oppose
• pettifog
• protest
• refuse
• shy
• stickle
• vary
• wrangle

Weak matches

• break with
• put up a fight
• put up an argument
• say no way
• say not a chance
• say nothing doing

Strongest matches

• annihilate
• belie
• cancel out
• disallow
• disprove
• invalidate
• neutralize
• nullify
• rebut
• reverse
• undo
• vitiate
• void

Strong matches

• abate
• abolish
• abrogate
• annul
• blackball
• cancel
• controvert
• countercheck
• cross
• deny
• ding
• dump
• frustrate
• gainsay
• impugn
• kill
• negative
• oppose
• quash
• redress
• refute
• repeal
• rescind
• retract
• revoke
• stonewall
• traverse

Weak matches

• break with
• disaffirm
• put down
• turn down
• turn thumbs down

Strongest matches

• argue
• assail
• attack
• debate
• defy
• deny
• disagree
• dispute
• face
• fight
• prevent
• protest
• resist

Strong matches

• assault
• bar
• battle
• bombard
• check
• combat
• confront
• contradict
• controvert
• counter
• counterattack
• cross
• disapprove
• encounter
• expose
• gainsay
• hinder
• neutralize
• reverse
• taunt
• thwart
• withstand

Weak matches

• call in question
• face down
• frown at
• not countenance
• run counter to
• search out
• speak against
• stand up to
• take a stand
• take issue
• take on
• turn the tables

Strongest matches

• abandon
• break with
• disavow
• dismiss
• disown
• forsake
• recant
• renounce
• repeal
• rescind
• retract
• reverse
• revoke
• spurn

Strong matches

• abjure
• apostatize
• banish
• cast
• decline
• default
• defect
• demur
• deny
• desert
• disapprove
• discard
• disclaim
• dishonor
• disinherit
• dump
• flush
• nix
• oust
• rat
• refuse
• reprobate
• tergiversate
• turn

Weak matches

• be against
• cast off
• cut off
• disacknowledge
• tergiverse
• turn down
• wash one's hands of

Strongest matches

• combat
• cope
• defy
• hold off
• repel
• resist
• ride out
• suffer
• thwart
• tolerate
• weather

Strong matches

• brace
• brave
• buck
• confront
• contest
• cross
• dispute
• duel
• face
• fight
• oppose
• stand
• stick
• take
• traverse
• violate

Weak matches

• grapple with
• hang on
• hang tough
• hold one's ground
• hold out
• prevail against
• put up struggle
• put up with
• remain firm
• sit and take it
• stand fast
• stand firm
• stand one's ground
• stand up against
• stand up to
• stick fast
• take it
• take on
• win out