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   recalcitrant

   /rɪˈkalsɪtr(ə)nt/

   adjective

   • 1. having an obstinately uncooperative attitude towards authority or discipline: "a class of recalcitrant fifteen-year-olds"

   noun

   • 1. a person with an obstinately uncooperative attitude: "a stiff-necked recalcitrant and troublemaker"

   Word Origin late 18th century: from Frenchrécalcitrant or its source Latin recalcitrant- ‘kicking out with the heels’, from the verb recalcitrare, based on calx, calc- ‘heel’.

   Derivatives

   • 1. recalcitrance noun
   • 2. recalcitrantly adverb

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