defiant
adjective
characterized by defiance; boldly resistant or challenging.
half-defiant
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a word derived from
defiant.
Example Sentences
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The woman gave a laugh, which was half-defiant, half amused.
From The Coming of the King by James Hocking
"Clo——" But Clodagh raised her head, in a half-defiant return to reticence.
From The Gambler A Novel by Katherine Cecil Thurston
As she emerged from the inn--for three days she had not been out--she cast a half-shamed, half-defiant look this way and that.
From Starvecrow Farm by Stanley J. Weyman
"I'm at your service whenever you like," Scales would say, with a kind of half-defiant obsequiousness.
From Masterman and Son by W. J. (William James) Dawson
The boy knew her voice; the laugh died out on his lips in an instant; he looked at her with a gaze half-frightened, half-defiant, and drew closer to the lady's side.
From A Vanished Hand by Sarah Doudney
