half-defiant

• a word derived from defiant.
  defiant

  adjective

  characterized by defiance; boldly resistant or challenging.

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half-defiant

"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

Perhaps he found it less hard to yield, feeling that helpless touch on his arm, and seeing that half-pleading, half-defiant look on the handsome but weak face.

From A Blot on the Scutcheon by Mabel Winifred Knowles

"Clo——" But Clodagh raised her head, in a half-defiant return to reticence.

From The Gambler A Novel by Katherine Cecil Thurston

"I know perfectly well who I am—who my mother is," she ended, with a half-defiant and half-fearful sob in her voice.

From The Beloved Woman by Kathleen Thompson Norris

Into his eyes came now and then the look, half-deprecating, half-defiant, which they have who are only learning to yield obedience to the government of a strong hand and will, which no love softens.

From Frederica and her Guardians The Perils of Orphanhood by Margaret M. (Margaret Murray) Robertson

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