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Meanings of recalcitrant in inglês

Stubbornly resistant to authority or control.

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Boldly resisting opposition.

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Usage of recalcitrant in inglês
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Only once had he taken any direct action against a recalcitrant government.
Childhood's End
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He says he was forced to accept the amendment by recalcitrant lawmakers.
Reuters
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But the mere threat of resignation brought the most recalcitrant to reason.
Cavour
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If Professor Bew were describing recalcitrant loyalism he would have it right.
The Irish Times
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He asked me to sup with him and admire the fair recalcitrant.
The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Volume 1...
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Two types of municipal solid wastes were assumed, easily degradable and recalcitrant.
Pubmed
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Or Timothy Dalton dangling out the back dealing with a recalcitrant henchman.
The Irish Times
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The House was willing, though there were very many recalcitrant Irish members.
Phineas Finn / The Irish Member
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Totsin frowned, disappointed, as if he were dealing with a recalcitrant child.
Stonewielder
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It was the recalcitrant, tea-seeking Wisdom Ant, now perched on my shoulder.
The Mammoth Book of Steampunk
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Muttering curses at the recalcitrant bread, he shaved off the excess crusts.
Book of lost threads
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Eventually he spoke to her as though she were a recalcitrant child.
Blameless
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Can he be threatened with imprisonment as is done with recalcitrant witnesses?
The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, V...
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The mint, of course, was to help deal with recalcitrant wolf breath.
Blameless
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Case: A woman presented with vaginal mucosal lesions recalcitrant to initial treatment efforts.
Pubmed
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In recalcitrant places like Alabama, federalized National Guards would protect civil rights activists.
Ebony
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