0 open disobedience; challenging or opposition -- tentangan
He acted in defiance of my orders.
However, in an open defiance of the life president's advice, the majority voted for the multiparty cause in the 1993 referendum.
The unfriendly faces, illuminated by the glow of the fire, communicate their unified defiance through the faintest of smiles.
They gradually untwine as the music marshals itself for a final dance of defiance.
Passive resistance intermixed with active defiance in the rear inevitably and profoundly affected conditions at the front.
In the event of defiance, do they offer a constructive alternative, perhaps based on a different normative perspective, or new clinical trial data?
The resignation was not, however, an act of defiance.
For physical or psychological maltreatment, "misbehavior" or "defiance" was most often cited.
This resistance against efforts at government repression became both a symbolic and structural defiance against the system.
