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Adjective: recalcitrant  ri'kal-si-trunt
  1. Stubbornly resistant to authority or control
    - fractious, refractory, incalcitrant [non-standard]
     
  2. Marked by stubborn resistance to authority
    "the University suspended the most recalcitrant demonstrators";
    - incalcitrant [non-standard]

See also: defiant, disobedient, noncompliant

Encyclopedia: Recalcitrant

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