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Word:
defiance
IPA transcription: [dɪf'aɪəns]
Pronunciations of defiance
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noun
meaning of the word
Synonyms:
defiance, rebelliousness
Meaning:
intentionally contemptuous behavior or attitude
Synonyms:
defiance
Meaning:
a hostile challenge
Usage examples
Setting all the sane traditions at defiance
"You take the tone of defiance, I see, Philip.
With such precautions the courtiers might bid defiance to contagion.
Its fluttering motions seemed to Harry more significant than ever of defiance.
Fast upon the curt refusal of the Lord of Arkell came his message of defiance.
Still, it gave her an immense amount of satisfaction to slam the windows loudly, as if in pure defiance.
The school was to be largely devoted to producing music for the photoplay, in defiance of chapter fourteen.
At Julia's first words Eleanor dropped the small spade she held and straightened up, the picture of defiance.
Defiance, and pride, and savage delight in misery, were entirely gone; and depression had taken the place of dejection.
As when she had cowed with a look Ajax, the lion, so now, with defiance and wrath in her face, she dashed straight at the foe.
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George Lansbury
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Zelda Fitzgerald
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Eureka Rebellion
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