Thesaurus / defy
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Again we have seen the stirring scenes of young and old defy riot police and arbitrary detention in an authoritarian state.
RUSSIA IS MURDERING THE KREMLIN'S BIGGEST CRITIC IN PLAIN SIGHT. WHO WILL SAVE ALEXEI NAVALNY?MICHAEL WEISSAPRIL 22, 2021TIMEArches more graceful in form, or better fitted to defy the assaults of time, I have never seen.
GLANCES AT EUROPEHORACE GREELEYIf they are still Moderns and alive, I defy you to bury them if you are discussing living questions in a full and honest way.
THE SALVAGING OF CIVILISATIONH. G. (HERBERT GEORGE) WELLSHe could not bear to open his dreadful situation to his Uncle David, nor to kill himself, nor to defy the vengeance of Longcluse.
CHECKMATEJOSEPH SHERIDAN LE FANUIt was probably this opposition that made young Cargill decide that it would be really worth while to defy the legend.
UNCANNY TALESVARIOUS"Thirty," said the first bidder in a tone which seemed to defy further competition.
CAMILLE (LA DAME AUX CAMILIAS)ALEXANDRE DUMAS, FILSI defy you to see or think of them and not smile with an infinite and intimate but quite impersonal pleasure.
THE POCKET R.L.S.ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONIn the study of antiquity there are steep and irregular by-paths that defy the traveller every step that he pursues them.
A CURSORY HISTORY OF SWEARINGJULIAN SHARMANCompact and populous, at once a castle and a city, the place could defy all the horse Indians of North America.
OVERLANDJOHN WILLIAM DE FORESTA thousand stony needles lifted their ragged points as if to defy the lightning.
OVERLANDJOHN WILLIAM DE FORESTWORDS RELATED TO DEFY
- affront
- audacity
- back talk
- big talk
- boldness
- bravado
- brazenness
- call
- cartel
- challenge
- command
- confrontation
- contempt
- contrariness
- contumacy
- dare
- defy
- disorderliness
- effrontery
- enjoinder
- factiousness
- fractiousness
- gas
- guts
- hot air
- impudence
- impugnment
- indocility
- insolence
- insubordination
- insurgence
- insurgency
- intractableness
- lip
- muster
- obstinacy
- obstinateness
- obstreperousness
- opposition
- order
- perversity
- provocation
- rebellion
- rebelliousness
- recalcitrance
- recalcitrancy
- refractoriness
- revolt
- sass
- spite
- stump
- summons
- temerity
- throwing of the gauntlet
- uncontrollability
- uncontrollableness
- ungovernableness
- unmanageability
- untowardness
- wildness
- affront
- audacity
- back talk
- big talk
- boldness
- bravado
- brazenness
- call
- cartel
- challenge
- command
- confrontation
- contempt
- contrariness
- contumacy
- dare
- defy
- disorderliness
- effrontery
- enjoinder
- factiousness
- fractiousness
- gas
- guts
- hot air
- impudence
- impugnment
- indocility
- insolence
- insubordination
- insurgence
- insurgency
- intractability
- lip
- muster
- obstinacy
- obstinateness
- obstreperousness
- opposition
- order
- perversity
- provocation
- rebellion
- rebelliousness
- recalcitrance
- recalcitrancy
- refractoriness
- revolt
- sass
- spite
- stump
- summons
- temerity
- throwing of the gauntlet
- uncontrollability
- uncontrollableness
- ungovernableness
- unmanageability
- untowardness
- wildness
- argue
- assail
- assault
- attack
- bar
- battle
- bombard
- call in question
- check
- combat
- confront
- contradict
- controvert
- counter
- counterattack
- cross
- debate
- defy
- deny
- disagree
- disapprove
- dispute
- encounter
- expose
- face
- face down
- fight
- fly in the face of
- frown at
- gainsay
- hinder
- neutralize
- not countenance
- prevent
- protest
- resist
- reverse
- run counter to
- search out
- speak against
- stand up to
- take a stand
- take issue
- take on
- taunt
- thwart
- turn the tables
- withstand
- be insubordinate
- boycott
- break with
- censure
- combat
- come out against
- criticize
- defy
- denounce
- disobey
- dissent
- drop out
- fight
- get out of line
- insurrect
- make waves
- mutiny
- oppose
- opt out
- overthrow
- overturn
- remonstrate
- renounce
- resist
- revolt
- riot
- rise up
- rock the boat
- run amok
- secede
- strike
- take up arms
- turn against
- upset
- boycotts
- breaks with
- censures
- combats
- comes out against
- criticizes
- defies
- denounces
- disobeys
- dissents
- drops out
- fights
- gets out of line
- insurrects
- is insubordinate
- makes waves
- mutinies
- opposes
- opts out
- overthrows
- overturns
- remonstrates
- renounces
- resists
- revolts
- riots
- rises up
- rocks the boat
- runs amok
- secedes
- strikes
- takes up arms
- turns against
- upsets
- affront
- audacity
- back talk
- big talk
- boldness
- bravado
- brazenness
- call
- cartel
- challenge
- command
- confrontation
- contempt
- contrariness
- contumacy
- dare
- defy
- despite
- effrontery
- enjoinder
- factiousness
- gas
- guts
- hot air
- impudence
- impugnment
- insolence
- insubordination
- insurgence
- insurgency
- intractableness
- lip
- muster
- opposition
- order
- perversity
- provocation
- rebellion
- rebelliousness
- recalcitrancy
- revolt
- sass
- spite
- stump
- summons
- temerity
- throwing of the gauntlet
- unruliness
- affront
- audacity
- back talk
- big talk
- boldness
- bravado
- brazenness
- call
- cartel
- challenge
- command
- confrontation
- contempt
- contrariness
- contumacy
- dare
- defy
- despite
- effrontery
- enjoinder
- factiousness
- gas
- guts
- hot air
- impudence
- impugnment
- insolence
- insubordination
- insurgence
- insurgency
- intractableness
- lip
- muster
- opposition
- order
- perversity
- provocation
- rebellion
- rebelliousness
- recalcitrance
- revolt
- sass
- spite
- stump
- summons
- temerity
- throwing of the gauntlet
- unruliness
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