defiant

If Rep. John C. Fleming has anything to do with it, the answer will be a defiant “no.”

The feelings of people are expressed with the same kind of defiant individualism as are their tastes.

But now the pack began to rouse up and show its rage under the calm, careless, defiant contempt with which it was being treated.

He had the manner of the defiant male lured from behind his defenses into the open against his will.

There was still time, they reasoned, for Mr. Frick to withdraw his defiant ultimatum.

The defiant ring of this abrupt question brought Bea to her sense of the situation.