recalcitrant
refractory
fractious
rebellious
restiveness
restive
insubordination
obstreperous
insubordinate
disobedient
antiauthoritarian
unauthorised
unauthorized
unruly
rebel
antiauthority
potent
strong
cantankerous
disaffected
ill-affected
bloody-minded
impotent
malcontent
wayward
obstinate
vetoer
authoritarian
contrary
perverse
divest
empty suit
antinomian
disinvest
noncompliant
defiant
pisspants
ineffective
unable
ineffectual
irresistibly
centrifugal
who's to say?
monarchical
ruling
inertia
regnant
overpoweringly
overwhelmingly
reigning
disobedience
authoritative
ungoverned
important
recusant
power
force
contumacy
coercion
tin god
subservient
unpermissive
buay tank
loose cannon
undisciplined
intractability
balker
jurisdiction
idle
rebellion
baulker
intractableness
nonobedience
loose
resistible
turn rusty
contrariness
uncheckable
perversity
beyond one's pay grade
meritocrat
perverseness
hedgy
nonautonomy
defiance
zugzwang
unenforceable
de son tort
contumacious

English words for 'stubbornly resistant to authority or control'

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