recalcitration
21demur — Synonyms and related words: aversion, back down, balance, balk, bashfulness, beef, bitch, blench, boggle, boggling, boycott, call in question, challenge, combat, combative reaction, complain, complaint, compunction, conscience, counteraction, cry …
22dispute — Synonyms and related words: Kilkenny cats, Socratic method, abjure, agitate, altercate, altercation, apologetics, apologia, apology, argue, argufy, argument, argumentation, asking, assert the contrary, awake a doubt, bandy words, be diffident, be …
23dissent — Synonyms and related words: Evangelicalism, Protestantism, Reform, Zwinglianism, abnegation, aggressiveness, agree to differ, agree to disagree, antagonism, antipathy, apostasy, argumentation, averseness, aversion, backlash, backwardness, balk,… …
24kick — Synonyms and related words: Roman candle, abandon, aggressiveness, aid to navigation, air a grievance, alarm, amber light, amusement, animal pleasure, antagonism, antipathy, backfire, backlash, backlashing, balefire, bang, beacon, beacon fire,… …
25kickback — Synonyms and related words: abatement, agio, allowance, backfire, backlash, backlashing, bank discount, boomerang, bounce, bound, breakage, bribe, carom, cash discount, chain discount, charge off, commission, compensation, concession, contrecoup …
26negativism — Synonyms and related words: abnegation, alienation, arrest, arrestation, arrestment, autism, autistic thinking, avoidance mechanism, blame shifting, blockage, blocking, challenge, check, clogging, closing up, closure, combative reaction,… …
27objection — Synonyms and related words: answer, antipathy, argument, ban, bashfulness, beef, bitch, blackball, blackballing, block, blockade, boggle, boggling, bottleneck, boycott, catch, challenge, combative reaction, complaint, compunction, cordon,… …
28obstinacy — Synonyms and related words: adhesiveness, antagonism, antipathy, application, assiduity, assiduousness, averseness, aversion, backwardness, bad blood, bloody mindedness, bulldog tenacity, bullheadedness, cantankerousness, challenge, clashing,… …
29opposition — Synonyms and related words: adversary, adversity, agreement to disagree, alienation, allegory, analogy, antagonism, antagonist, antagonistic, anteposition, antipathy, antithesis, antithetical, apostasy, argumentation, arrest, arrestation,… …
30passive resistance — Synonyms and related words: Quakerism, a wise passiveness, acquiescence, amenability, challenge, civil disobedience, combative reaction, complaint, compliance, contemplation, contemplative life, counteraction, defiance, demur, disobedience,… …
