recalcitrant
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adjective
balky, callous, contrary, contumacious, defiant, disobedient, fractious, hardened, headstrong, immovable, insubordinate, intractable, mulish, mutinous, noncooperative, obstinate, obstreperous, opposing, oppugnant, pervicacious, rebellious, recusant, refractory, relentless, renitent, resistant, resistive, restive, stubborn, uncompliant, uncomplying, uncontrollable, uncooperative, ungovernable, unmanageable, unrelenting, unsubmissive, unwilling, unyielding, willful
associated concepts: recalcitrant witness
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index
adverse (hostile), contentious, contumacious, deviant, disinclined, disobedient, disorderly, dissident, fractious, incorrigible, indomitable, insubordinate, insusceptible (uncaring), intractable, lawless, nonconsenting, obdurate, recusant, reluctant, renitent, restive, uncontrollable, unreasonable, unruly, unyielding, vicious
Burton's Legal Thesaurus.
William C. Burton.
2006