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recalcitrant |
(adj): stubbornly resistant to authority or control
(adj): vs. obedient) -- (not obeying or complying with commands of those in authority
(adj): marked by stubborn resistance to authority
(adj): vs. compliant), noncompliant -- (boldly resisting authority or an opposing force
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"Words are as recalcitrant as circus animals, and the unskilled trainer can crack his whip at them in vain."
- Gerald Brenan
The bears have been recalcitrant this summer.
Useful to describe children. "Ma'am, I'm afraid your child has been quite recalcitrant."
...By last week, this peculiar state of mind had not only sucked thousands of American oil wells dry, stripped the rubber groves of Malaya, produced the world's most inhuman industry and its most recalcitrant labor union, but had filled U.S. streets with so many automobiles that it was almost impossible to drive one...
The Last Traffic Jam, Time Magazine, December 15, 1947
ree-KAL-see-trent
No, Mahathir Mohammed.
Paul Keating.