recalcitrant
adjective
resisting authority or control; not obedient or compliant; refractory.
recalcitrancy
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a word derived from
recalcitrant.
Example Sentences
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Under this extreme recalcitrancy lies trouble of a kind that is manufactured only in Ireland.
From Time Magazine Archive
But he, bitter against the educational recalcitrancy of England, wanted to make a point against the "hard-dying social stigma which attaches to being in trade" in England.
From Time Magazine Archive
With supreme skill, she kept this sword of Damocles poised above the Bison's head, and more than once she was actually on the point of really dropping it— for his recalcitrancy grew and grew.
From Eminent Victorians by Giles Lytton Strachey
I suppose I shall ding some recalcitrancy into them some day, but it is uphill work.
From Erewhon Revisited by Samuel Butler
To the importance of mind-cure the medical and clerical professions in the United States are beginning, though with much recalcitrancy and protesting, to open their eyes.
From Varieties of Religious Experience, a Study in Human Nature by William James
