refractory
adjective
hard or impossible to manage; stubbornly disobedient.
refractorily
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a word derived from
refractory.
Example Sentences
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Once he overwhelmed her for so long with imprudent reproaches for her heartlessness and lack of tact, that at last she cried out defiantly and refractorily, "Why was Felix so?"
From Felix Lanzberg's Expiation by Ossip Schubin
A step further in recovery: and the free spirit draws near to life again, slowly indeed, almost refractorily, almost distrustfully.
From Human, All Too Human A Book for Free Spirits by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
