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  • 91insubordinate — I adjective contumacious, defiant, disloyal, disobedient, dissident, fractious, froward, indocile, insubmissive, insurgent, insurrectionary, intractable, lawless, mutinous, noncompliant, rebellious, recalcitrant, recusant, refractory, resistive,… …

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  • 92intractable — I adjective adamant, balky, beyond control, contrary, contumacious, defiant, difUcilis, disobedient, dogged, firm, froward, headstrong, heedless, incorrigible, indocile, indocilis, indomitable, inflexible, insubordinate, insuppressible,… …

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  • 93recalcitrant — I adjective balky, callous, contrary, contumacious, defiant, disobedient, fractious, hardened, headstrong, immovable, insubordinate, intractable, mulish, mutinous, noncooperative, obstinate, obstreperous, opposing, oppugnant, pervicacious,… …

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  • 94recusant — re·cu·sant / re kyə zənt, ri kyü / adj: refusing to submit to authority the recusant witness failed to appear despite a subpoena recusant n Merriam Webster’s Dictionary of Law. Merriam Webster. 1996 …

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  • 95uncontrollable — I adjective bullheaded, carried away, disobedient, disorderly, fractious, frenzied, headstrong, hysterical, impetuous, impotens, incorrigible, indocile, indomitable, insuppressible, insurgent, intractable, irrepressible, irresistable, lawless,… …

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  • 96unruly — I adjective chaotic, contrary, contumacious, disobedient, disorderly, effrenatus, ferox, fractious, froward, hard to control, headstrong, incorrigible, indocile, insubordinate, intractable, irrepressible, lawless, mutinous, obstinate,… …

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  • 97contrary — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. opposed, opposite, counter, conflicting, contradictory; unfavorable, adverse; captious, willful, perverse; hostile, antagonistic. See opposition, negation, obstinacy.Ant., favorable; obliging. II… …

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  • 98disobedience — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Refusal to obey Nouns 1. disobedience, insubordination, contumacy; infraction, infringement; naughtiness; violation, noncompliance; recusancy; nonobservance. Slang, behavishness, orneriness. See… …

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  • 99impatient — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. eager, hurried, restive, restless; anxious, uneasy, intolerant. See excitability,haste, desire. II (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Irritable] Syn. excitable, quick tempered, fretful; see bothered ,… …

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  • 100uptight — I (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Troubled] Syn. worried, concerned, apprehensive; see troubled 1 . 2. [Cautious] Syn. conventional, strict, old fashioned; see conservative . II (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) a. Sl. nervous, tense, anxious, on edge, edgy,… …

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