contumacious

• Adjetivo usado para descrever alguém que teimosamente ou deliberadamente se recusa a obedecer à autoridade.

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.

   Desobediente contumaz

   • 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.

   Sinônimosdefiantinsubordinateintractableobstinaterebelliousrecalcitrantrefractoryunyielding

   Antônimoscompliantconformabledeferentialdociledutifulobedientsubmissivetractable