unsubmissive

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They are ironic, determined, weary, languorous, gazing out from half-closed eyes, unsubmissive.

From New York Times • Nov. 20, 2017

Note, further, that the words 'despise' and 'be weary' both imply rather rejection with loathing, and thus express unsubmissive impatience which gets no good from discipline.

From Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Kings Chapters VIII to End and Chronicles, Ezra, and Nehemiah. Esther, Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes by Maclaren, Alexander

Or up endeavor's unsubmissive slope Advance a bosom of desire, and bow A back of patience in a thankless task?

From Undertones by Cawein, Madison J.

The heart with its affections; the will with its immense energies,—the entire active and emotive portions of his nature,—are still earthly, unsubmissive, selfish, and sinful.

From Sermons to the Natural Man by Shedd, William G. T. (William Greenough Thayer)

It bears the date of April 10th, being the very next day after he had written to Reynolds in so unsubmissive a tone.

From Life of John Keats by Rossetti, William Michael