comply
verb (used without object)
to act or be in accordance with wishes, requests, demands, requirements, conditions, etc.; agree (sometimes followed bywith ).
uncomplying
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a word derived from
comply.
Example Sentences
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His features were plain, his turn of mind caustic, his feelings ambitious and avaricious, his temper uncomplying, and his whole appearance singular and unprepossessing.
From Memoirs, Correspondence and Manuscripts of General Lafayette by Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier, marquis de Lafayette
Others of the company, as Vane and Adams, incurred the Protector's displeasure by too uncomplying principles.
From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 11 by Rossiter Johnson
Age and wealth are uncomplying task-masters—habit and power endure restraint with an ill grace.
From The O'Donoghue Tale Of Ireland Fifty Years Ago by Charles James Lever
Adj. refusing &c. v.; restive, restiff†; recusant; uncomplying, unconsenting; not willing to hear of, deaf to. refused &c. v.; ungranted, out of the question, not to be thought of, impossible.
From Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Peter Mark Roget
The law commandeth mercy, not compliance: And thus for mercy's sake he's uncomplying.
From Nathan the Wise; a dramatic poem in five acts by William Taylor
