What is "defiant"

Usage examples of "defiant".

So what if a bunch of defiant colonists have to put up with a few bruises?

Even that wild, defiant period of half-forced gaiety, which had ended in my toboggan accident, then seemed in my memory to be beautiful and colored in a paradisiacal way, like a lost land of pleasure, the echo of which still came across to me with bacchanal intoxication from the distance.

Instead of a call for peace or a cry to battle, Barnett delivered a defiant statement that seemed designed to protect his political future by clarifying his 7:30 p.

He intended it to sound penitent, humble even, but it sounded defiant in the befurred room.

While I surveyed the form, Johnny Bickford observed me with a defiant stare.

Their actionsdoubly defiant in involving not only students but womenwere followed by spontaneous protests at a number of higher schools and universities calling for the resignations of militaristic administrators and teachers and the granting of greater student rights.

Where Scomber blazed below his defiant mind-bridge only dark bodies drift.

She tapped a defiant foot against the tinkling marimba rhythms seeping into the waiting room somewhere over near the curtains, where the wheelchair had collided with a radiator and come to rest.

All of them choked and gasped, coughing, from the bite, all but Lord Dietrich, who drained his cup as though it were honey mead and did not flinch as his defiant gaze remained fixed on the biscop.

He was so defiant about it that it struck me he had begun to doubt Mr. Vholes.

A defiant cheer sounded, and the redcoats came again to the slaughter.

This just made matters worse, infuriating an already defiant population, and as fast as troopers put the rebellion down in one place, it just popped up in another, regrouping and re-forming faster than it could be dispersed.

Grizzly faced the charging Reptiloids, raised his arms above his head, and roared his defiant challenge.

The roof of the hall had fallen in but the walls still stood four square and defiant, fine-dressed stone still visible through the stains of age and decay.

The Valerians, despite his profound mistrust of them, were still nothing more than a defiant question mark.