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recalcitrant
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synonyms: refractory, obdurate, contumacious, froward, renitent ???
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Definition:Kicking back; recalcitrating; hence, showing repugnance or opposition; refractory.Noah Webster. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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These recalcitrant views had time after time brought him into conflict with his peers.
Stieg Larsson. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Reg Keeland translation), p.71 (2009)
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Then, when he began reading those books I brought home, it was almost as if he wanted to be persuaded by them, and as if any criticism I made of them was nothing more than recalcitrance.
Marilynne Robinson. Gilead, p.177 (2004)
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The recalcitrant Congressmen had been penned in the district jail.
Sinclair Lewis. It Can't Happen Here
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A squat figure in leather breeks and rough shirt, the Master of Horse had an air of authority sufficient, I thought, to quell the most recalcitrant stallion.
Diana Gabaldon. Outlander (1991)
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forgetting the recalcitrant cavalry colonel, his own dignity as a general, and above all quite forgetting the danger
Leo Tolstoy. War and Peace: With bonus material from Give War and Peace A Chance by Andrew D. Kaufman
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