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recalcitrancy
 

Definitions from WordNet

Noun recalcitrancy has 1 sense
  1. refractoriness, unmanageableness, recalcitrance, recalcitrancy - the trait of being unmanageable
    --1 is a kind of intractability, intractableness

Definitions from the Web

Recalcitrancy

Definitions:

  1. Noun: the quality or state of being recalcitrant; obstinacy; resistance to authority or guidance.
  2. Noun: a recalcitrant individual; someone who resists control or refuses to comply with orders.

Examples:

  1. The employer was frustrated with the recalcitrancy of the employees, who refused to follow company rules.
  2. Despite numerous warnings, the recalcitrancy of the teenager kept getting him into trouble.

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