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Example sentences for: defiant

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When Tracy comes upon Paul at a table, gathering signatures for his nominating petition, she responds with cold fury, but she also scrawls her name on his sheet--a complex, defiant, irreducible gesture.
The NYT headline is "Winnie Mandela Is Defiant, Calling Accusations 'Lunacy'."
Yet after the meeting, reports the Post , Jiang gave a defiant speech in which he made no concessions about human rights in his country or Tibet.
That kind of flippancy amounts to a defiant refusal to think seriously about the trade-offs involved in designing a criminal justice system.
He took himself so seriously . And nothing makes you more bratty and defiant than a self-important adult.