defiant

I go back and forth between despairing and defiant.

In legal filings, however, he was defiant, saying he “never made any comment that was even remotely offensive.”

Tears roll down her cheek, but she is defiant.

The first reports emerged just before Chinese leader Xi Jinping met his Russian counterpart at the Brics summit earlier in October, overshadowing a gathering that was meant to send the West a defiant message.

In his lawsuit, De León took a defiant stance, blasting media coverage of the scandal, which his lawyer described as “more concerned with clickbait than facts.”