Synonym: noncompliant. Similar words: defiance, defile, define, deficit, definite, definitive, definitely, definition. Meaning: [-nt] 
adj. boldly resisting authority or an opposing force.
adj. boldly resisting authority or an opposing force. 
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91. She could recognise her wild, desperate, defiant mood, the flightiness of her temper, and even some of the very cloud-shapes of gloom and despondency that had brooded in her heart.
92. But suffice it to say, Jobs's instinct for defiant iconoclasm and his insistence on unconventional approaches did not, in the end, serve him as well as it served Apple's customers and shareholders.
93. Roosevelt was defiant in the face of the bad news.
94. Luce rues that a middle-class home is crowded—only 700 square feet—and "cluttered with chintzy memorabilia" and heartbreakingly defiant messages on refrigerator magnets.
95. Abetting a fugitive slave in antebellum America was widely considered a sin against God, but Huck destroys the letter with the defiant avowal: “All right, then, I’ll go to hell.”
96. Corporal punishment is frequently ineffective, for it results in children's more aggressive and defiant behaviours.
97. Luminosity glows through pale velum walls. Watered neutrals and translucent colors converge in this opaque - defiant palette.
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