Definitions
stubbornly resistant to authority or control
Word origin
From Latin refractārius (“obstinate”), from refrāctus, past participle of refringere (“to break up”). Originally refractary, refractarie, but reanalysed after other adjectives in -ory.
Used in a sentence
“[…] in most instances attempts to coerce the refractory and disobedient have been the signals of bloody wars, […]”
“Mr. Weller knocked at the door, and after a pretty long interval—occupied by the party without, in whistling a tune, and by the party within, in persuading a refractory flat candle to allow itself to be lighted […]”
“And the camels galled, sore-footed, refractory, Lying down in the melting snow.”
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01“Hard to control”10 letters
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