recalcitrancy

Example Sentences

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But he, bitter against the educational recalcitrancy of England, wanted to make a point against the "hard-dying social stigma which attaches to being in trade" in England.

From Time Magazine Archive

Under this extreme recalcitrancy lies trouble of a kind that is manufactured only in Ireland.

From Time Magazine Archive

Her recalcitrancy was kept up the larger part of one day, and she made the place almost unbearable that night by screaming and moaning.

From Pathology of Lying, accusation, and swindling: a study in forensic psychology by Healy, William

For him in his recalcitrancy there was only a younger son's portion, the little seigneury of Eaucourt, which had been his mother's.

From The Path of the King by Buchan, John

Commands succeeded admonitions, and as the only effect on the rowers was obvious recalcitrancy, oaths succeeded both: all in those throat- clearing tones to which the German language so consonantly lends itself.

From Tracks of a Rolling Stone by Coke, Henry J. (Henry John)