frondeur
Example Sentences
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Aramis resides in gorgeous chambers decorated with the souvenirs of war, drinks the most expensive wine and probably does more than just flirt with that beautiful Frondeur, the Duchesse de Longueville.
From Washington Post
At the end of January, Valls was defeated in the Socialist Party race by Benoît Hamon, a dapper frondeur, a member of a rebel faction.
From The New Yorker
Ces essais d’Oscar Wilde représentent plus particulièrement le côté paradoxal et frondeur de sa personalité.
From Project Gutenberg
His temper is essentially frondeur; he has, what so few possess, absolute independence of judgment; he refuses to see through other men's spectacles, whether of smoked or of rose-coloured glass.
From Project Gutenberg
Tallemant says that the Marquis "avait terriblement d'esprit, mais un peu frondeur."
From Project Gutenberg
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