uncomplying

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Age and wealth are uncomplying task-masters—habit and power endure restraint with an ill grace.

From The O'Donoghue Tale Of Ireland Fifty Years Ago by Lever, Charles James

My wish is, not to stand aloof, the uncomplying bigot of opiniâtretè, but cordially to join issue with you in the furtherance of the work.

From The Letters of Robert Burns by Burns, Robert

Adj. refusing &c. v.; restive, restiff†; recusant; uncomplying, unconsenting; not willing to hear of, deaf to. refused &c. v.; ungranted, out of the question, not to be thought of, impossible.

From Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Roget, Peter Mark

But Súdáveh still kept in view her own design, and still laboring for its success, sedulously read her own incantations to prevent disappointment, at any rate to punish the uncomplying youth if she failed.

From The Persian Literature, Comprising The Shah Nameh, The Rubaiyat, The Divan, and The Gulistan, Volume 1 by Gottheil, Richard James Horatio

But in me, you, my mother and Queen, have hitherto found an uncomplying daughter--and you, Fathers, a self-willed Princess.

From Zenobia or, the Fall of Palmyra by Ware, William