contumacious
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adjective
anarchistic, cantankerous, contemptuous, contumax, defiant, defying lawful authority, disobedient, entete, factious, fractious, headstrong, indocile, indomitable, insolent, insolently disobedient, insubordinate, intractable, mutinous, not compliant, obstinate, pertinax, perverse, rebellious, recalcitrant, recusant, refractory, refusing to obey, renitant, repulsive, resistant, resisting authority, resisting control, restive, stubbornly disobedient, stubbornly rebellious, uncomplying, ungovernable, unmanageable, unreasonable, unsubmissive, willfully disrespectful
associated concepts: contumacious conduct, contumacious witness
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index
contentious, disobedient, disorderly, froward, impertinent (insolent), inflexible, insolent, insubordinate, intractable, lawless, perverse, recalcitrant, recusant, restive, unruly
Burton's Legal Thesaurus.
William C. Burton.
2006