contumacious

"You are the most contumacious man I've ever seen!"

"You will take a sufficient number of troops to prevent delay, in case the place should be contumacious."

When it did meet, on 18 August, it also proved contumacious.

On 19 July he was pronounced contumacious and excommunicated.

If members of the Greater Chapter fail to attend, they are declared to be contumacious.

At these words, spoken with the obstinacy of a contumacious schoolboy, all eyes were turned instinctively on the chief.

It was unanimously resolved that he was contumacious and ought to be excommunicated.

The contumacious vassal then plundered the entire district.

He is volatile, unstable, contumacious, amoral, and exceptionally talented.

"However, a distinction must be made between intense advocacy and contumacious refusals to obey a court's lawful orders."

A master might be fined or a labourer imprisoned, and if contumacious, whipped, for breach of this rule.

At another sitting Bishop Morgan pronounced him contumacious, and condemned him."

The perfect word: contumacious.

Additionally a wide range of more contumacious terms, such as for instance 'liplap' can be found in literature from previous centuries.

Not many athletes like being compared to John McEnroe when he was in his contumacious prime as a tennis player.

These considerations will suffice to save Anselm from the charge of contumacious neglect of recent papal policy.

Philip demanded John's presence- a tactical impossibility- and declared John a contumacious vassal.

'Apparently you are of such a contumacious character that ordinary whippings have no effect on you.

Nathaniel Hawthorne, in his 1859 journals, observed, "Contumacious prisoners were put to a dreadful torture."

But now see how the contumacious Sections, Lepelletier foremost, kick against the pricks!

And you fellows," he added to his escort, "range up and be ready, lest this said priest should prove contumacious."

If they remained contumacious then it was clear they had to be executed, but what if they recanted?

"Well, well, Hugh, you contumacious young rascal!

In February 1343 Peter declared James a contumacious vassal and his kingdom and lands forfeit.

His name was removed from the final list of recipients by Czar Nicholas I, who harbored a strong dislike for the contumacious poet.