Englishdefiant
adjective
he is defiant in the face of critics:
intransigent, resistant, obstinate, uncooperative, non-compliant, recalcitrant, confrontational, challenging;
aggressive, belligerent, pugnacious, bellicose, combative, ready for a fight, antagonistic, hostile;
obstreperous, truculent, dissenting, argumentative, quarrelsome, contentious, disobedient, insubordinate, subversive, rebellious, mutinous;
informal feisty, spoiling for a fight;
British, informal stroppy, bolshie;
North American, informal scrappy;
archaic or Law contumacious.
▷antonyms apologetic; cooperative.
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