recalcitrancy
Example Sentences
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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
Under this extreme recalcitrancy lies trouble of a kind that is manufactured only in Ireland.
From Time Magazine Archive
I suppose I shall ding some recalcitrancy into them some day, but it is uphill work.
From Erewhon Revisited by Samuel Butler
Commands succeeded admonitions, and as the only effect on the rowers was obvious recalcitrancy, oaths succeeded both: all in those throat- clearing tones to which the German language so consonantly lends itself.
From Tracks of a Rolling Stone by Henry J. (Henry John) Coke
His lordship's rage at such unlooked-for recalcitrancy was unbounded.
From Love Romances of the Aristocracy by Thornton Hall
