Not willing to accept discipline

Usage examples of recalcitrant.

All the frustrations James was experiencing with a recalcitrant, unco-operative, fissive, argumentative and Anglocentric parliament could find their outlet here.

I never had to lapidate anybody, though I deposed a few recalcitrants, and it was universally agreed I would be a clement and peaceable Shan King.

Miss Mahan looked at him over her glasses the same way she would a recalcitrant student.

She rode along in silence, ignoring the grunts of exertion from the boy behind, who attempted by force of will as much as horsemanship to keep his recalcitrant mount moving.

And Flinx had no doubt the recalcitrant syb contained potentially interesting material.

I would take Wiggy with me, although I knew that she might prove recalcitrant.

Briefly El wondered how far along the road those two bumbling mages had gotten to yestereve on their recalcitrant mules.

Have you noticed the tendency of some things to behave well at first, as though knowing they are on trial, only to turn recalcitrant and balky when they believe they have been accepted?

The last thing he wanted to do was waste time traipsing around die metroplex after a group of recalcitrant runners, but unfortunately he had no choice.

Russian thought in Europe, which perhaps drew their minds away from their personal imbroglio, seems to have had a mollifying effect on the increasingly acrimonious relations between Dostoevsky and his recalcitrant beloved.

Some there were among them, however, who, feeling perhaps a hint of rebellion upon the part of overdriven muscles, cut switches from ready mesquite and lashed recalcitrant legs until they bled, scarifying them to renewed life and vitality.

All the frustrations James was experiencing with a recalcitrant, unco-operative, fissive, argumentative and Anglocentric parliament could find their outlet here.

The leather bellyband more recalcitrant persons were chained to would not fit around his middle.

Munitions poured in for them through Roumania, which, with a big Red Army on its Bessarabian frontier and its own peasants recalcitrant, remained also ambiguously, dangerously, and yet for a time profitably, out of the struggle.

Jesuits, says that European offenders and recalcitrant Indians in the missions were sent as a last resource to the Spanish settlements.