defiance
I
noun
affront, challenge, contumacy, dare, daring, disobedience, disregard, disregard of orders, gage, impudence, impudency, insolence, insubmission, insubordination, insurgence, insurgency, insurrection, invitation to combat, mutiny, noncompliance, noncooperation, opposition, oppugnation, provocatio, rebellion, rebelliousness, recalcitrance, recalcitrancy, recalcitration, recusancy, resistance, revolt, revolution, sedition, strike, stubbornness, unruliness, uprising
associated concepts: in defiance of the law
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index
conflict, contradiction, disrespect, impugnation, infraction, insurrection, mutiny, negation, noncompliance (nonobservance), nonconformity, protest, provocation, rebellion, rebuff, refusal, resistance, revolt, sedition, spite
Burton's Legal Thesaurus.
William C. Burton.
2006