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Recalcitrant   /rɪkˈælsɪtrənt/   Listen
Recalcitrant

adjective
1.
Stubbornly resistant to authority or control.  Synonyms: fractious, refractory.  "A refractory child"
2.
Marked by stubborn resistance to authority.





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"Recalcitrant" Quotes from Famous Books



... back to New York, Average Jones Wrote two letters. One was to the Denny Research Laboratories in St. Louis, the other to the Department of Agriculture at Washington. On the following morning he went to Dorr's office. That young chemist was in a recalcitrant frame of mind. ...
— Average Jones • Samuel Hopkins Adams
... the club meeting speedily came to the ears of the recalcitrant Moderns, and by no means pleased them. They had expected at least that some one would propose that they should be met half-way, and appealed to, for the sake of the School, to abandon their attitude. That would have given them an opportunity ...
— The Cock-House at Fellsgarth • Talbot Baines Reed
... not be distracted!" Ralph said doggedly, though a Scot, correct for once in his grammar; and he pursued a recalcitrant particle through the dictionary ...
— The Lilac Sunbonnet • S.R. Crockett
... phrases to the cook which he confidently counted on Bates to deliver with his summons. That the butler had indeed done so was apparent the moment the cook appeared, her fat red face wreathed in smiles. A cross, recalcitrant woman who had sorely tried the patience of Mr. Norvallis the day before was an angel of sweetness as she ...
— The Monk of Hambleton • Armstrong Livingston
... my horn for the hogs, and they returned to their pen obediently as the Princess had promised. I had scarcely finished numbering them when Marc'antonio came down the track, this time haling a recalcitrant she-goat by ...
— Sir John Constantine • Prosper Paleologus Constantine


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