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[flaming-tyger.livejournal.com]

contumacious-adjective [kon-too-mey-shuhs]
stubbornly perverse or rebellious; willfully and obstinately disobedient.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/contumacious

She was a contumacious four year old, insisting on tying her own shoes instead of letting her mother even thought it meant they would be late.

Comments

Ha, great word.

[cobraqueen-22.livejournal.com]

"Thy shafts have all gone home, and thou
Hast triumph’d. Would’st thou win a new renown?
Attack an enemy more contumacious..."
--Jean Racine, Phaedra, III.2.

[dazzleflash.livejournal.com]

ha ha ha ha! Contumacious is the perfect word for describing my younger sister.

[prettygoodword.livejournal.com]

Hmph. Since when did "I'll do it!" become redefined as rebellion instead of independent spirit?

---L.