contumacious

• Veraltetes Adjektiv, das eine Person beschreibt, die hartnäckig oder absichtlich Autorität verweigert oder sich nicht unterordnet.

An archaic adjective describing someone who is stubbornly or willfully disobedient to authority.

1. Willfully disobedientC2formal

   Stubbornly refusing to obey authority, especially in a legal or formal context.

   Widerspenstig ungehorsam

   • The contumacious witness refused to answer the judge's questions.
   • His contumacious behavior in court led to a contempt charge.
   • The student was expelled for being contumacious towards the principal.

   Synonymedefiantinsubordinateintractableobstinaterebelliousrecalcitrantrefractoryunyielding

   Antonymecompliantconformabledeferentialdociledutifulobedientsubmissivetractable