recalcitrancy
Example Sentences
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Under this extreme recalcitrancy lies trouble of a kind that is manufactured only in Ireland.
From Time Magazine Archive
But he, bitter against the educational recalcitrancy of England, wanted to make a point against the "hard-dying social stigma which attaches to being in trade" in England.
From Time Magazine Archive
With supreme skill, she kept this sword of Damocles poised above the Bison's head, and more than once she was actually on the point of really dropping it— for his recalcitrancy grew and grew.
From Eminent Victorians by Strachey, Giles Lytton
His lordship's rage at such unlooked-for recalcitrancy was unbounded.
From Love Romances of the Aristocracy by Hall, Thornton
He held no kindness for Malcolm Lightener, for Lightener had befriended Bonbright in his recalcitrancy.
From Youth Challenges by Kelland, Clarence Budington
