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perverse: marked by a disposition to oppose and contradict; "took perverse satisfaction in foiling her plans"

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flagitious collapse

caviling collapse: quibbling over insignificant details; "caviling pettifoggers and quiggling pleaders"-Edmund Burke; "her nagging and carping attack"; "thought her editor unnecessarily nitpicking"; "a pettifogging lawyer's mind"; "had no patience with quibbling critics"

feisty collapse: showing courage; "the champion is faced with a feisty challenger"

spleeny collapse

froward collapse: habitually disposed to disobedience and opposition

positivist collapse: someone who emphasizes observable facts and excludes metaphysical speculation about origins or ultimate causes; of or relating to positivism; "positivist thinkers"; "positivist doctrine"; "positive philosophy"

dogmatist collapse: a stubborn person of arbitrary or arrogant opinions

pigheaded collapse

purist collapse: someone who insists on great precision and correctness (especially in the use of words)

waspish collapse

unmanageable collapse: difficult to manage or control; "a difficult child", "an unmanageable situation"

contumacious collapse: wilfully obstinate; stubbornly disobedient; "a contumaceous witness is subject to punishment"

captious collapse: tending to find and call attention to faults; "a captious pedant"; "an excessively demanding and faultfinding tutor"

competitive collapse: showing a fighting disposition; "highly competitive sales representative"; "militant in fighting for better wages for workers"; "his self-assertive and ubiquitous energy"; subscribing to capitalistic competition; involving competition or competitiveness; "competitive games"; "to improve one's competitive position"

unpliable collapse

bearish collapse: expecting prices to fall

cussed collapse: stubbornly persistent in wrongdoing

huffy collapse: roused to anger; "stayed huffy a good while"- Mark Twain; "she gets mad when you wake her up so early"; "mad at his friend"; "sore over a remark"; quick to take offense

not true collapse

confronting collapse

averse collapse

wrongheaded collapse: obstinately perverse in judgment or opinion; "a wrongheaded policy"

opponent collapse: characterized by active hostility; "opponent (or opposing) armies"

sadistic collapse: deriving pleasure or sexual gratification from inflicting pain on another

bigot collapse: a prejudiced person who is intolerant of any opinions differing from his own

at fault collapse: deserving blame; "admitted to being at fault"

bullheaded collapse: obstinate and stupid

testy collapse

stickler collapse: someone who insists on something; "a stickler for promptness"

unfactual collapse

imaginary invalid collapse

irascible collapse

impious collapse: lacking piety or reverence for a god; lacking piety and reverence for a god; lacking due respect or dutifulness; "impious toward one's parents"; "an undutiful son"

hulking collapse: of great size and bulk; "a hulking figure of a man"; "three hulking battleships"

mulish collapse

insubordinate collapse: disposed to or engaged in defiance of established authority; not submissive to authority; "a history of insubordinate behavior"; "insubordinate boys"

cantankerous collapse: having a difficult and contrary disposition; "a cantankerous and venomous-tongued old lady"- Dorothy Sayers

adversary collapse: someone who offers opposition

snappish collapse: tending to speak irritably; "a snappish tone of voice"

crosswise collapse: in the shape of (a horizontal piece on) a cross; lying or extending across the length of a thing or in a cross direction; "a crosswise street"; "the crosswise dimension"; not in the intended manner; "things are going crosswise"

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