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| ADJECTIVE: | 1. Tenaciously unwilling to yield: bullheaded, dogged, hardheaded, headstrong, mulish, pertinacious, perverse, pigheaded, stiff-necked, tenacious, willful. See RESIST. 2. Difficult to alleviate or cure: persistent, pertinacious, stubborn. See CONTINUE. 3. Not submitting to discipline or control: disorderly, fractious, indocile, intractable, lawless, obstreperous, recalcitrant, refractory, uncontrollable, undisciplined, ungovernable, unmanageable, unruly, untoward, wild. Idioms: out of line. See CONTROL, ORDER, PEACE, RESIST.
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