EnglishMerriam-Webster Dictionary
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given to resisting authority or another's control //the defiant puppy refused to let go of the football balky, contrary, contumacious, disobedient, froward, incompliant, insubordinate, intractable, obstreperous, rebel, rebellious, recalcitrant, recusant, refractory, restive, ungovernable, unruly, untoward, wayward, willful (
or wilful)
given to resisting authority or another's control //the defiant puppy refused to let go of the football balky, contrary, contumacious, disobedient, froward, incompliant, insubordinate, intractable, obstreperous, rebel, rebellious, recalcitrant, recusant, refractory, restive, ungovernable, unruly, untoward, wayward, willful (
or wilful)
