uncomplying
Example Sentences
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The law commandeth mercy, not compliance: And thus for mercy's sake he's uncomplying.
From Nathan the Wise; a dramatic poem in five acts by William Taylor
My wish is not to stand aloof, the uncomplying bigot of opiniâtreté, but cordially to join issue with you in the furtherance of the work.
From The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham by Robert Burns
Others of the company, as Vane and Adams, incurred the Protector's displeasure by too uncomplying principles.
From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 11 by Rossiter Johnson
In this they were deceived; and his firmness and uncomplying integrity is supposed to have accelerated his fall.
From The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 4, April 1810 by S. C. (Stephen Cullen) Carpenter
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
