compliant
adjective
complying; obeying, obliging, or yielding, especially in a submissive way.
uncompliant
-
a word derived from
compliant.
Example Sentences
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De Zoysa became uncompliant, muttering to PCs Davey and Still: "Please leave, please leave."
From BBC ● Jun. 23, 2023
Amtrak last month warned it would send letters to uncompliant workers starting Dec. 8 in preparation for termination Jan. 4.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 9, 2021
Sonnenkamp was alarmed at this determined and uncompliant bearing.
From Villa Eden: The Country-House on the Rhine by Berthold Auerbach
The change of shields of Sir Bourbon is the change of faith of Henry of Navarre; and the reluctant mistress is that uncompliant France whom he forced to take him as her monarch.
From Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature by Isaac Disraeli
They could not, any one of them, allow their Sovereign to plead where an Imperial Minister could threaten the lives of uncompliant Cardinals.
From The Divorce of Catherine of Aragon The Story as Told by the Imperial Ambassadors Resident at the Court of Henry VIII by J.A. Froude
