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Recalcitrant

adjective

Stubbornly resistant to authority or control. Synonyms: fractious, refractory. "A refractory child"

Marked by stubborn resistance to authority.

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"Recalcitrant" Quotes from Famous Books

... full of love—except for the pope—of mysticism, and of a sort of archaeological piety. He is learned and eloquent and wistful. Why should he not remain in the church? Why should he not bring all its cold and recalcitrant members up to his own ...

— Winds Of Doctrine - Studies in Contemporary Opinion • George Santayana

... return for these gifts American labor gave up nothing so vital as British labor had done in the identical situation. The right to strike was left unmolested and remained a permanent threat hanging over slow moving officialdom and recalcitrant employers. And the only restraint accepted by labor was a promise of self-restraint. The Federation was not to strike until all other means for settlement had been tried, nor was it to press for the closed ...

— A History of Trade Unionism in the United States • Selig Perlman

... present, and that all stragglers were being directed to Fontanes and Le Marronnier. Mules and drivers defiled at a swinging trot, enveloped in torrents of white dust; behind them rode a peloton of the remount, lashing recalcitrant animals forward; and in the rear of these rolled automobile ambulances, red crosses aglow in the rays ...

— Barbarians • Robert W. Chambers

... Caught in the unique trap, created by the passage of the cession act and the sudden volte-face of its repeal, he struggled desperately to extricate himself. Alone of all the leaders, the governor of ill-starred Franklin remained recalcitrant. ...

— The Conquest of the Old Southwest • Archibald Henderson

... with a sense of grievance. A marriage project that tied up all the small pleasant nuptial gossip-items about bridesmaids and honeymoon and recalcitrant aunts and so forth, for an indefinite number of years seemed scarcely decent in his eyes, and there was little satisfaction or importance to be derived from early and special knowledge of an event which ...

— The Unbearable Bassington • Saki

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