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Sentence count:97+4Posted:2016-12-20Updated:2020-07-24
Synonym: noncompliantSimilar words: defiancedefiledefinedeficitdefinitedefinitivedefinitelydefinitionMeaning: [-nt]  adj. boldly resisting authority or an opposing force. 
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31. Sometimes parents feel some embarrassment and guilt toward defiant or stubborn aspects of themselves.
32. Four heeded his royal solicitation and plunged their blades into the defiant archbishop of Canterbury.
33. She was spunky, dazzlingly defiant, and, I was sure, beautiful.
34. In defiant frustration, Nicole dabbles in the underground Seattle rock scene, where the older guys are equally alluring and dangerous.
35. I was too defiant to return to such an art school, so cramped, so bunged up with petty authority.
36. We crept closer, and watched her push her defiant hair away from her forehead with the back of her hand.
37. However; the defiant child also tends to have a little better postural control than the overly sensitive child.
38. No, he said - and he was defiant - there was no need.
39. The concluding song, Murder in the Market, brings a hilarious stanza sung falsetto when the murderess gives her defiant answer.
40. Alongside stubbornness and negativism, the defiant child has enormous energy and persistence.
41. Wilkes, as a symbol of defiant resistance to government, was taken up by all these groups.
42. With one last defiant surge of power the jeep finally gave up the ghost.
43. They tend to be defiant toward society, and successfully resist therapy.
44. With almost supernatural inner strength, Washington's Carter retreats into a defiant yet defensive shell of stoicism.
45. Harriet Walter plays her excellently as a woman who combines a strong sexuality with a defiant nobility of character.
46. But such findings as these were greeted with dismay and defiant incredulity by professional moralists and church leaders.
47. The big bird squatted quietly against Rima's chest, but her eyes held a sulky, defiant glare.
48. Then the barricaded rebels of the Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement greet the dawn with militant anthems and defiant chants.
49. The Derbyshire Times noted that defiant parents were voting with their feet by keeping children away from school.
50. A spurious semicolon has lost its defiant power to separate life from death.
51. But it was a defiant rather than a triumphant gesture.
52. West Indies' second innings saviour: Jimmy Adams, on his Test debut,[http://sentencedict.com/defiant.html] making a defiant and unbeaten 79.
53. It is easier to be soothing with a highly sensitive child who is clingy and frightened than with a defiant child.
54. He usually leaves most of his talking for the court, where he likes to hound opponents with defiant banter.
55. There is yet another worrisome parental pattern that I sometimes see among parents of defiant children.
56. Unlike the highly sensitive child, the defiant child has some physical characteristics that make a more aggressive approach possible.
57. The defiant child uses bossiness and defiance in an attempt to feel secure.
58. The strained but defiant Premier pleaded with Tory Euro-rebels not to vote against the Government.
59. His lips trembled, and he felt strangely compelled to shout a defiant slogan.
60. The pose chosen - with head tilted back and neck exposed - is vulnerable and defiant simultaneously.
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