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recalcitrance

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vying collapse

competition collapse: the act of competing as for profit or a prize; "the teams were in fierce contention for first place"; a business relation in which two parties compete to gain customers; "business competition can be fiendish at times"

rivalry collapse

disinclination collapse: that toward which you are inclined to feel dislike; "his disinclination for modesty is well known"

unmanageability collapse

cross purposes collapse

repulsion collapse: the act of repulsing or repelling an attack; a successful defensive stand; the force by which bodies repel one another

sulks collapse

backlash collapse: an adverse reaction to some political or social occurrence; "there was a backlash of intolerance"

intractability collapse: the trait of being hard to influence or control

bad blood collapse

contraposition collapse

counteraction collapse

originality collapse: the quality of being new and original (not derived from something else); the ability to think and act independently

disobedience collapse: the failure to obey; the trait of being unwilling to obey

indocility collapse

defiance collapse: a defiant act; intentionally contemptuous behavior or attitude; a hostile challenge

distaste collapse

noncompliance collapse

repercussion collapse: a remote or indirect consequence of some action; "his declaration had unforeseen repercussions"; "reverberations of the market crash were felt years later"

nonobservance collapse: a lack of conformity with law or custom or practice etc.

remonstrance collapse

unruliness collapse: the trait of being prone to disobedience and lack of discipline

dissension collapse

aversion collapse: the act of turning yourself (or your gaze) away; "averting her gaze meant that she was angry"

renitency collapse

reluctance collapse: a certain degree of unwillingness; "a reluctance to commit himself"; "his hesitancy revealed his basic indisposition"; "after some hesitation he agreed"; (physics) opposition to magnetic flux (analogous to electric resistance)

friction collapse: effort expended in moving one object over another with pressure; the resistance encountered when one body is moved in contact with another

despite collapse: contemptuous disregard; "she wanted neither favor nor despite"

passive resistance collapse: peaceful resistance to a government by fasting or refusing to cooperate

contempt collapse: a willful disobedience to or disrespect for the authority of a court or legislative body; a manner that is generally disrespectful and contemptuous; open disrespect for a person or thing; lack of respect accompanied by a feeling of intense dislike; "he was held in contempt"; "the despite in which outsiders were held is legendary"

enmity collapse

indisposition collapse: a slight illness

incongruity collapse: the quality of disagreeing; being unsuitable and inappropriate

collision collapse: a conflict of opposed ideas or attitudes or goals; "a collision of interests"; an accident resulting from violent impact of a moving object; "three passengers were killed in the collision"; "the collision of the two ships resulted in a serious oil spill"; (physics) an brief event in which two or more bodies come together; "the collision of the particles resulted in an exchange of energy and a change of direction"

negativism collapse

antagonism collapse: (biochemistry) interference in or inhibition of the physiological action of a chemical substance by another having a similar structure; an actively expressed feeling of dislike and hostility; the relation between opposing principles or forces or factors; "the inherent antagonism of capitalism and socialism"

hostility collapse: a hostile (very unfriendly) disposition; "he could not conceal his hostility"; the feeling of a hostile person; "he could no longer contain his hostility"; a state of deep-seated ill-will

antipathy collapse: the object of a feeling of intense aversion; something to be avoided; "cats were his greatest antipathy"; a feeling of intense dislike

refusal collapse: a message refusing to accept something that is offered; the act of refusing

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