See defiant in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"word": "desafiador"
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"sense": "defying",
"word": "непоко́рный"
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"word": "desafiante"
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"sense": "defying",
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"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "defying",
"word": "küstah"
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"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "defying",
"word": "serkeş"
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"sense": "defying",
"word": "meydan okuyucu"
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"sense": "defying",
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"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "predizvikatelen",
"sense": "boldly resisting opposition",
"word": "предизвикателен"
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"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "boldly resisting opposition",
"word": "malobeema"
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"sense": "boldly resisting opposition",
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"code": "de",
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"sense": "boldly resisting opposition",
"word": "trotzig"
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"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "boldly resisting opposition",
"word": "ellenszegülő"
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"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "boldly resisting opposition",
"word": "ribelle"
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{
"code": "it",
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"sense": "boldly resisting opposition",
"word": "apertamente disobbediente"
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"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "hirakinaotta",
"sense": "boldly resisting opposition",
"word": "開き直った"
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"word": "неповину́ющийся"
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"note": "of the attitude",
"roman": "vyzyvájuščij",
"sense": "boldly resisting opposition",
"word": "вызыва́ющий"
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"sense": "boldly resisting opposition",
"word": "fresco"
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"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "boldly resisting opposition",
"word": "contestatario"
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"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
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"word": "utmanande"
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"ref": "1966, British Broadcasting Corporation. Monitoring Service, Summary of World Broadcasts: Non-Arab Africa (issues 2262-2303)",
"text": "Countries condemning South Africa, Portugal and Rhodesia still find it necessary to trade with these defiants against so-called world opinion."
},
{
"ref": "John Michael Doris, Lack of Character: Personality and Moral Behavior (page 48)",
"text": "Damn the obedients and hail the defiants if you will; the experiment does not motivate confidence about how particular subjects would behave in markedly dissimilar situations."
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