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contumacious

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con·tu·ma·cious  (knt-mshs, -ty-)
adj.
Obstinately disobedient or rebellious; insubordinate.
contu·macious·ly adv.
contu·macious·ness n.
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Adj.1.contumacious - wilfully obstinate; stubbornly disobedient; "a contumaceous witness is subject to punishment"
insubordinate - not submissive to authority; "a history of insubordinate behavior"; "insubordinate boys"
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The impossibility of maintaining order and dispensing justice among these sovereign subjects, produced the experiment of dividing the empire into nine or ten circles or districts; of giving them an interior organization, and of charging them with the military execution of the laws against delinquent and contumacious members.
Federalist Papers Authored by Alexander Hamilton by Hamilton, Alexander View in context
Among the shifting, sonorous, pulsing crowd glimpses could be had of Jerry's high hat, battered by the winds and rains of many years; of his nose like a carrot, battered by the frolicsome, athletic progeny of millionaires and by contumacious fares; of his brass-buttoned green coat, admired in the vicinity of McGary's.
The Four Million by Henry, O. View in context
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