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  • 41unsubmissive — a. Disobedient, uncomplying, refractory, obstinate, contumacious, unruly, perverse, unyielding, indocile, insubordinate, ungovernable, unmanageable …

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  • 42backward — adv 1. rearward, towards the back, in reverse, vice versa, upside down, topsyturvy, inside out, back in front; crablike, retrocessive ly, retrogressively, regressively, Scot, and North. Eng. backlins; Naut. aback, Naut. abaft, Naut. aft, Naut.… …

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  • 43contumacious — adj contrary, perverse, froward, refractory, cross grained, Scot. thrawn, wrong headed; obstinate, stubborn, stubborn as a mule, mulish, pigheaded, bullheaded; willful, self willed, intractable, headstrong, pervicacious, stiff necked, dogged,… …

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  • 44disobedient — adj insubordinate, noncompliant, non observant, defiant, disregardful; naughty, mischievous; undutiful, remiss, derelict, delinquent, negligent; unruly, wayward, fractious, restive, unmanageable, ungovernable, uncomplying, indisciplined;… …

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  • 45insubordinate — adj 1. unsubordinate, defiant, rebellious; insurrectional, mutinous, revolting, seditious, insurgent, riotous, revolutionary; anarchistic, lawless. 2. disobedient, refractory, recalcitrant, contumacious; undutiful, uncomplying, noncomplying,… …

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  • 46naughty — adj 1. impish, waggish, prankish, elfish, Inf. full of the devil, puckish; roguish, scampish, arch, Scot. hempy; playful, sportive, full of mischief, mischievous, fond of mischief, frolicsome; annoying, vexatious, exasperating, teasing. 2.… …

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  • 47resistant — adj 1. withstanding, repellent, defiant, opposing, antagonistic, counteractive; repugnant, clashing, reactionary, oppugnant, dissident; indomitable, die hard, intractable, obstreperous; belligerent, bellicose, hostile; insubordinate, rebellious,… …

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  • 48restive — adj 1. restless, uneasy, nervous, unquiet, impatient. See restless(def. 2). 2. refractory, fractious, disobedient, recalcitrant, contumacious; undutiful, uncomplying, noncomply ing, uncompliant, noncompliant, noncooperative, uncooperative;… …

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  • 49insubordinate — [adj] rebellious contrary, contumacious, defiant, disaffected, disobedient, disorderly, dissentious, factious, fractious, insurgent, intractable, mutinous, naughty, perverse, recalcitrant, refractory, riotous, seditious, treacherous, turbulent,… …

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