uncomplying
Example Sentences
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His features were plain, his turn of mind caustic, his feelings ambitious and avaricious, his temper uncomplying, and his whole appearance singular and unprepossessing.
From Memoirs, Correspondence and Manuscripts of General Lafayette by Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier, marquis de Lafayette
He not only felt the uncomplying message of the queen as a sufficient mortification to his personal vanity, but as a public attack upon his influence and power as a king.
From Female Scripture Biographies, Volume I by Francis Augustus Cox
The temper and habits of the young are not become so stiff and uncomplying as when more advanced in life; they form more easily to each other, and hence many occasions of disgust are removed.
From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 15 by Various
My wish is, not to stand aloof, the uncomplying bigot of opiniâtretè, but cordially to join issue with you in the furtherance of the work.
From The Letters of Robert Burns by Robert Burns
Age and wealth are uncomplying task-masters—habit and power endure restraint with an ill grace.
From The O'Donoghue Tale Of Ireland Fifty Years Ago by Charles James Lever
