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recalcitrant

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recalcitrant
adjective
a class of recalcitrant fifteen-year-olds:
uncooperative, obstinately disobedient, intractable, unmanageable, ungovernable, refractory, insubordinate, defiant, rebellious, mutinous, wilful, wayward, headstrong, self-willed, contrary, perverse, difficult, awkward, obdurate;
British, informal bloody-minded, bolshie, stroppy;
archaic contumacious, froward;
rare renitent, pervicacious.
antonyms amenable, docile, compliant.
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