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throwing of the gauntlet
noun as in defiance
Strongest matches
Strong matches
noun as in indocility
Weak matches
- affront
- audacity
- back talk
- big talk
- boldness
- bravado
- brazenness
- call
- cartel
- challenge
- command
- confrontation
- contempt
- contrariness
- contumacy
- dare
- defy
- disorderliness
- effrontery
- enjoinder
- factiousness
- fractiousness
- gas
- guts
- hot air
- impudence
- impugnment
- insolence
- insubordination
- insurgence
- insurgency
- intractability
- intractableness
- lip
- muster
- obstinacy
- obstinateness
- obstreperousness
- opposition
- order
- perversity
- provocation
- rebellion
- rebelliousness
- recalcitrance
- recalcitrancy
- refractoriness
- revolt
- sass
- spite
- stump
- summons
- temerity
- uncontrollability
- uncontrollableness
- ungovernableness
- unmanageability
- untowardness
- wildness
noun as in intractability
Strong matches
- affront
- audacity
- boldness
- bravado
- brazenness
- call
- cartel
- challenge
- command
- confrontation
- contempt
- contrariness
- contumacy
- dare
- disorderliness
- effrontery
- fractiousness
- gas
- guts
- impudence
- insolence
- insubordination
- insurgence
- insurgency
- intractableness
- lip
- muster
- obstinacy
- obstreperousness
- opposition
- order
- perversity
- provocation
- rebellion
- rebelliousness
- recalcitrance
- recalcitrancy
- refractoriness
- revolt
- sass
- spite
- stump
- summons
- temerity
- wildness
noun as in intractableness
Strong matches
- affront
- audacity
- boldness
- bravado
- brazenness
- call
- cartel
- challenge
- command
- confrontation
- contempt
- contrariness
- contumacy
- dare
- disorderliness
- effrontery
- fractiousness
- gas
- guts
- impudence
- insolence
- insubordination
- insurgence
- insurgency
- intractability
- lip
- muster
- obstinacy
- obstreperousness
- opposition
- order
- perversity
- provocation
- rebellion
- rebelliousness
- recalcitrance
- recalcitrancy
- refractoriness
- revolt
- sass
- spite
- stump
- summons
- temerity
- wildness
noun as in recalcitrance
Strong matches
- affront
- audacity
- boldness
- bravado
- brazenness
- call
- cartel
- challenge
- command
- confrontation
- contempt
- contrariness
- contumacy
- dare
- despite
- effrontery
- gas
- guts
- impudence
- insolence
- insubordination
- insurgence
- insurgency
- intractableness
- lip
- muster
- opposition
- order
- perversity
- provocation
- rebellion
- rebelliousness
- recalcitrancy
- revolt
- sass
- spite
- stump
- summons
- temerity
- unruliness
noun as in recalcitrancy
Strong matches
- affront
- audacity
- boldness
- bravado
- brazenness
- call
- cartel
- challenge
- command
- confrontation
- contempt
- contrariness
- contumacy
- dare
- despite
- effrontery
- gas
- guts
- impudence
- insolence
- insubordination
- insurgence
- insurgency
- intractableness
- lip
- muster
- opposition
- order
- perversity
- provocation
- rebellion
- rebelliousness
- recalcitrance
- revolt
- sass
- spite
- stump
- summons
- temerity
- unruliness
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Example Sentences
It is a moral throwing of the gauntlet.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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