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| ADJECTIVE: | 1. Given to acting in opposition to others: balky, contrarious, contrary, difficult, froward, impossible, ornery, wayward. See ATTITUDE, SUPPORT. 2. Utterly reprehensible in nature or behavior: corrupt, degenerate, depraved, flagitious, miscreant, rotten, unhealthy, villainous. See CLEAN, GOOD. 3. Tenaciously unwilling to yield: bullheaded, dogged, hardheaded, headstrong, mulish, obstinate, pertinacious, pigheaded, stiff-necked, tenacious, willful. See RESIST.
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