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Refusing to cooperate or yield to control.
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- recalcitrant witness
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The recalcitrant witness withheld the name.
A recalcitrant committee blocked the change.
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Primary category: literary. Forms: Comparative more recalcitrant; superlative most recalcitrant where gradation is meaningful. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.
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