- contumacy
- n1. perverseness, perversity, perversion, contrariety, frowardness, refractoriness, wrong-headedness; obstinacy, stubbornness, mulishness, pig-headedness, bullheadedness; willfulness, intractableness, doggedness, obduracy; intransigence, inflexibility, immovability; tenacity, pertinacity, persistence, determination, resolution.2. disobedience, insubordination, mutiny, sedition; recalcitrance, rebelliousness, rebellion, revolt, opposition, recusancy, resistance; fractiousness, restiveness, unmanageableness; headiness, impetuosity, impetu-ousness; infraction, violation, breach
A Note on the Style of the synonym finder. 2014.