Adjective:

आज्ञा न माननेवाला, हुक्रम न माननेवाला,

recalcitrant's Usage Examples:

This Bohun lives in history as one of the recalcitrant barons of the year 1297, who extorted from Edward I.

This law was followed by one authorizing the government to suspend,in every diocese where the bishop continued recalcitrant, the payment of that contribution to the Roman Catholic Church which by agreement had been given by the state since 1817.

A relapse of the city led to a new ban of the emperor Matthias in 1613, and in the following year Spinola's Spanish troops brought back the recalcitrant city to the Catholic fold.

Since the authority of the League rested primarily on the moral support of its members, allied in common trade interests and acquiescing in the able leadership of Lubeck, its only means of compulsion was the "Verhansung," or exclusion of a recalcitrant town from the benefits of the trade privileges of the League.

In December 1814 he appeared before Bogota with a force of 2000 men, and obliged the recalcitrant leaders to capitulate, - a service for which he received the thanks of congress.

There was some resistance to the Interim, but force was employed against Augsburg and other recalcitrant cities, and soon it was generally accepted.

He had not to deal with the opposition of a recalcitrant monk, but with the awakening of a nation.

It displeased Napoleon no doubt that Mme de Stael should show herself recalcitrant to his influence.

Grindal himself was, however, inclined to be recalcitrant from different motives.

Matter was a potentially recalcitrant element.

Synonyms:

disobedient, refractory, fractious,

Antonyms:

docile, responsive, tractable, obedient,