contumacy
Willful refusal, authority
Contumacy is stubborn resistance to authority, especially willful disobedience to a court order or refusal to appear when summoned.
The word carries legal weight: a defendant held in contumacy may face penalties for contempt.
More broadly, it suggests obstinate defiance rather than mere disagreement: His contumacy in the face of repeated warnings led to his dismissal.
Refusal to follow orders
- noncomplianceFailure to follow requirements
- resistanceCapacity to withstand force
- refusalAct of declining
- disregardWillful lack of attention
recalcitrance · dissent · opposition · nonconformity · rejection · repudiation · rebuff · spurning
Disdainful disregard
- defaultPreset standard option
- nonappearanceFailure to attend
- noncooperationRefusing to work together
- courtTrial venue or sports surface
summons · citation · judgment · subpoena · jurisdiction · tribunal · evasion · sanction
Defying workplace authority
- mutinyRevolt against authority
- revoltOrganized resistance to power
- insurrectionViolent uprising against authority
- seditionInciting revolt against government
uprising · insurgency · subversion · unruliness · indiscipline · disaffection · waywardness · misconduct
Refusal to compromise
- stubbornnessRefusal to yield
- obduracyStubborn refusal to yield
- inflexibilityQuality of being unbending
- unyieldingnessRefusal to give way
pertinacity · doggedness · bullheadedness · mulishness · willfulness · tenacity · adamance · rigidity
disobedience
Refusal to follow orders
- noncomplianceFailure to follow requirements
- resistanceCapacity to withstand force
- refusalAct of declining
disregard · recalcitrance · dissent · opposition · nonconformity · rejection · repudiation · rebuff · spurning · challenge
contempt
Disdainful disregard
- defaultPreset standard option
- nonappearanceFailure to attend
- noncooperationRefusing to work together
court · summons · citation · judgment · subpoena · jurisdiction · tribunal · evasion · sanction · noncompliance
insubordination
Defying workplace authority
- mutinyRevolt against authority
- revoltOrganized resistance to power
- insurrectionViolent uprising against authority
sedition · uprising · insurgency · subversion · unruliness · indiscipline · disaffection · waywardness · misconduct · insolence
intransigence
Refusal to compromise
- stubbornnessRefusal to yield
- obduracyStubborn refusal to yield
- inflexibilityQuality of being unbending
unyieldingness · pertinacity · doggedness · bullheadedness · mulishness · willfulness · tenacity · adamance · rigidity · unbendingness
- defiancedefiance, disobedience, insubordination, noncompliance, rebellion
- stubbornnessstubbornness, pigheadedness, bullheadedness, mulishness, hardheadedness
- unrulinessmisbehavior, misconduct, disobedience, defiance, insubordination
- contempt of courtcriminal contempt, contempt order, contempt hearing, contempt charge
- audacityboldness, brazenness, audacity, chutzpah, gall
- Inquisitioninquisition, heretic, inquisitors, heretics, heresy trial
contumacyobedience
Compliance with authority
compliance · submission · deference · submissiveness · subservience
contumacyobedience
Compliance with authority
compliance · tractability · amenability · tractableness · acquiescence