Thesaurus / contumacious
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Chaussard junior was contumacious, and therefore received sentence of death.
REPERTORY OF THE COMEDIE HUMAINE, COMPLETE, A -- ZANATOLE CERFBERR AND JULES FRANOIS CHRISTOPHEThe mere fact of doing so caused him to be treated as a contumacious rebel.
THE MEMOIRS OF COUNT CARLO GOZZI; VOLUME THE FIRSTCOUNT CARLO GOZZIYet I think this should be sufficient, since we can sink you in an instant if you are foolish enough to prove contumacious.
WITH AIRSHIP AND SUBMARINEHARRY COLLINGWOODBut still the contumacious Mexia sold his corn and exacted his price!
MEXICO, AZTEC, SPANISH AND REPUBLICAN VOL. 1 OF 2BRANTZ MAYERA swamp oak stump is one of the most contumacious stumps in the world.
THE CASSOWARYSTANLEY WATERLOOYou are too benighted, and contumacious, to deserve any higher education; such as you expect to get for nothing.
THE REMARKABLE HISTORY OF SIR THOMAS UPMORE, BART., M.P., FORMERLY KNOWN AS "TOMMY UPMORE"R. D. BLACKMORESomething had gone wrong at home or abroad, and his grievance had rankled and rendered him unusually contumacious.
THAT LASS O' LOWRIE'SFRANCES HODGSON BURNETTUpon deliberation, they deposed the contumacious presbytery from their functions as clergymen, and declared their churches vacant.
BLACKWOOD'S EDINBURGH MAGAZINE -- VOLUME 55, NO. 340, FEBRUARY, 1844VARIOUSOn his return to Geneva he was summoned before the consistory, and, proving contumacious, was imprisoned for a week.
ENCYCLOPAEDIA BRITANNICA, 11TH EDITION, VOLUME 9, SLICE 7VARIOUS“If we cannot make this contumacious rascal speak, we will find others more tractable,” observed the pursuivant.
GUY FAWKESWILLIAM HARRISON AINSWORTHWORDS RELATED TO CONTUMACIOUS
- anarchic
- anarchical
- anarchistic
- bad
- barbarous
- chaotic
- contumacious
- criminal
- despotic
- disobedient
- disordered
- disorderly
- evil
- fierce
- heterodox
- infringing
- insubordinate
- insurgent
- mutinous
- nihilistic
- noncompliant
- nonconformist
- piratical
- rebellious
- recusant
- revolutionary
- riotous
- savage
- seditious
- tempestuous
- terrorizing
- traitorous
- turbulent
- tyrannous
- uncivilized
- uncultivated
- unorthodox
- unpeaceful
- unrestrained
- unruly
- untamed
- violent
- warlike
- wild
- adamant
- cantankerous
- contradictory
- contrary
- contumacious
- convinced
- dead set on
- dogged
- dogmatic
- firm
- hard
- hardened
- headstrong
- heady
- immovable
- indomitable
- inflexible
- intractable
- intransigent
- locked-in
- mulish
- obdurate
- opinionated
- opinionative
- persistent
- pertinacious
- perverse
- pigheaded
- recalcitrant
- refractory
- relentless
- resolved
- restive
- self-willed
- steadfast
- strong-minded
- tenacious
- unalterable
- unflinching
- unmanageable
- unyielding
- willful
- abnormal
- bad-tempered
- cantankerous
- capricious
- contradictory
- contrary
- contumacious
- corrupt
- crabby
- cross
- degenerate
- delinquent
- depraved
- deviant
- disobedient
- dogged
- erring
- fractious
- hard-nosed
- headstrong
- intractable
- intransigent
- irritable
- miscreant
- mulish
- nefarious
- obdurate
- obstinate
- petulant
- pigheaded
- rebellious
- refractory
- rotten
- self-willed
- spiteful
- stubborn
- unhealthy
- unmanageable
- unreasonable
- unyielding
- villainous
- wayward
- wicked
- willful
- alienated
- anarchistic
- attacking
- bellicose
- contumacious
- defiant
- difficult
- disaffected
- disloyal
- disobedient
- disorderly
- dissident
- factious
- fractious
- iconoclastic
- incorrigible
- individualistic
- insurgent
- insurrectionary
- intractable
- mutinous
- obstinate
- pugnacious
- quarrelsome
- radical
- rebel
- recalcitrant
- refractory
- resistant
- restless
- revolutionary
- rioting
- riotous
- sabotaging
- seditious
- threatening
- treasonable
- turbulent
- ungovernable
- unruly
- warring
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