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  • 41obstinacy — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Refusal to comply Nouns 1. obstinacy, stubbornness, tenacity, doggedness; obduracy, obduration, insistence, resolution; intransigency, immovability, inflexibility, hardness, willpower; self will, will of …

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  • 42stubbornness — I (Roget s IV) n. Syn. obstinacy, doggedness, inflexibility, pertinacity, indomitability, perverseness, perversity, contumacy, obduracy, adamancy, refractoriness, mulishness, sullenness, pigheadedness, stupidity, intractableness, bullheadedness,… …

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  • 43disorderliness — (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun 1. A lack of order or regular arrangement: chaos, clutter, confusedness, confusion, derangement, disarrangement, disarray, disorder, disorderedness, disorganization, jumble, mess, mix up, muddle, muss, scramble, topsy… …

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  • 44obstinateness — (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun 1. The quality or state of being stubbornly unyielding: bullheadedness, doggedness, hard headedness, mulishness, obstinacy, pertina ciousness, pertinacity, perverseness, perversity, pigheadedness, tenaciousness,… …

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  • 45obstreperousness — (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun The quality or condition of being unruly: disorderliness, fractiousness, indocility, intractability, intractableness, obstinacy, obstinateness, recalcitrance, recalcitrancy, refractoriness, uncontrollability,… …

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  • 46recalcitrance — (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun 1. The disposition boldly to defy or resist authority or an opposing force: contempt, contumacy, defiance, despite, recalcitrancy. See RESIST. 2. The quality or condition of being unruly: disorderliness, fractiousness …

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  • 47recalcitrancy — (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun 1. The disposition boldly to defy or resist authority or an opposing force: contempt, contumacy, defiance, despite, recalcitrance. See RESIST. 2. The quality or condition of being unruly: disorderliness, fractiousness …

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  • 48refractoriness — (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun The quality or condition of being unruly: disorderliness, fractiousness, indocility, intractability, intractableness, obstinacy, obsti nateness, obstreperousness, recalcitrance, recalcitrancy, uncontrollability,… …

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  • 49uncontrollability — (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun The quality or condition of being unruly: dis orderliness, fractiousness, indocility, intractability, intractableness, obstinacy, obstinateness, obstreperousness, recalcitrance, recalcitrancy, refractoriness,… …

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  • 50uncontrollableness — (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun The quality or condition of being unruly: dis orderliness, fractiousness, indocility, intractability, intractableness, obstinacy, obstinateness, obstreperousness, recalcitrance, recalcitrancy, refractoriness,… …

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