- confrontation
- contempt
- opposition
- provocation
- rebellion
- spite
- affront
- audacity
- boldness
- bravado
- brazenness
- call
- cartel
- challenge
- command
- contrariness
- contumacy
- dare
- effrontery
- gas
- guts
- impudence
- insolence
- insubordination
- insurgence
- insurgency
- intractableness
- lip
- muster
- order
- perversity
- rebelliousness
- recalcitrance
- revolt
- sass
- stump
- summons
- temerity
- unruliness
- back talk
- big talk
- defy
- enjoinder
- factiousness
- hot air
- impugnment
- throwing of the gauntlet
On this page you’ll find 98 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to defiance, such as: confrontation, contempt, opposition, provocation, rebellion, and spite.
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Despite prodigious yo-yoing due to scrapes with securities regulators, missed deadlines, and defiance of pandemic-driven health laws, Tesla market capitalization is about $400 billion.
DOES ELON MUSK EVEN NEED A PR DEPARTMENT?ADAM LASHINSKYOCTOBER 8, 2020FORTUNE
Two of the artillerymen who had not been injured came to his assistance, and again the gun was thundering forth its defiance.
THE COURIER OF THE OZARKSBYRON A. DUNN
Others now rushed to the rescue, the artillery men came back, and once more the guns were thundering their defiance.
THE COURIER OF THE OZARKSBYRON A. DUNN
Madame had risen hastily, fear and defiance blending in her face, and she had at once commanded mademoiselle’s withdrawal.
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WORDS RELATED TO DEFIANCE
- assurance
- audaciousness
- brass
- cheek
- chutzpah
- cockiness
- crust
- defiance
- disrespectfulness
- effrontery
- forwardness
- gall
- guts
- gutsiness
- hardiness
- impertinence
- impudence
- insolence
- moxie
- nerve
- rudeness
- shamelessness
- spunk
- stuff
- temerity
- claiming
- confrontation
- dare
- defiance
- demanding
- demur
- interrogation
- objection
- protest
- provocation
- remonstrance
- summons to contest
- test
- threat
- trial
- ultimatum
- claimings
- confrontations
- dares
- defiance
- demandings
- demurs
- interrogations
- objections
- protests
- provocations
- remonstrances
- summons to contests
- tests
- threats
- trials
- ultimatums
- antipathy
- audacity
- aversion
- condescension
- contumely
- defiance
- derision
- despisal
- despisement
- despite
- disdain
- disesteem
- disregard
- disrespect
- distaste
- hatred
- indignity
- malice
- mockery
- neglect
- recalcitrance
- repugnance
- ridicule
- scorn
- slight
- snobbery
- stubbornness
- bucking
- conflict
- confutation
- contravention
- defiance
- denial
- difference
- disagreement
- discrepancy
- dispute
- dissension
- gainsaying
- incongruity
- inconsistency
- negation
- opposite
- opposition
- buckings
- conflicts
- confutations
- contraventions
- defiance
- denials
- differences
- disagreements
- discrepancies
- disputes
- dissensions
- gainsayings
- incongruities
- inconsistencies
- negations
- opposites
- oppositions
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insubordination
resistance, disobedience
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rebelliousness
resistance, disobedience
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contempt
resistance, indifference
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contumacy
resistance, contempt
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opposition
resistance, disobedience
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disobedience
insubordination, misconduct
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recalcitrance
disobedience, rebellion
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rebellion
disobedience, revolt
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challenge
attack
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disregard
contempt, insubordination
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resistance
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provocation
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confrontation
denial
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insolence
contempt
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dare
challenge
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audacity
rebelliousness
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unruliness
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bravado
challenge, rebelliousness
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impudence
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insurgence
revolt, insubordination
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defy
challenge
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temerity
rebelliousness
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noncompliance
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revolt
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dispute
problem, denial
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stump
challenge
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despite
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call
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summons
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accordance, acquiescence, compliance, deference, obedience, observance, regard, respect, subservience
English Collins Dictionary — English synonyms & Thesaurus 
defiance
1 n-uncount Defiance is behaviour or an attitude which shows that you are not willing to obey someone.
oft N of n
…his courageous defiance of the government.
2 If you do something in defiance of a person, rule, or law, you do it even though you know that you are not allowed to do it.
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in defiance of phrase PHR n
Thousands of people have taken to the streets in defiance of the curfew.
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challenge, provocation, opposition, insubmission, contumacy, contempt, insubordination, insurgency, mutiny, rebellion, recalcitration
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List of paraphrases for «defiance»:
contempt, challenge, disregard, disdain, insolence, contravention, scorn, violation, mistrust, disobedience, spite
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Assistant Attorney General Stephen Boyd:
This does not appear to be an effort to engage in good-faith negotiations or accommodations, instead, it appears to be another example of the administration’s blanket defiance of Congress’ constitutionally-mandated responsibilities.
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Jamel Mins:
A year ago this day people took the streets in defiance all over the country and it was inspiring, it was liberating, it was beautiful our work is not done.
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Alan Kazdin:
Well, what does the research show? That no fault of anybody but the stress changed the [parent’s] tone of voice, it’s not about blaming, but I’m saying we put defiance in the child.
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The Weekly Standard Steve Hayes:
This explains the shift from defiance to contrition, it’s totally contrived, she doesn’t mean a word of it.
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Attorney General Loretta Lynch:
I am inspired by the strength and the resilience of the survivors and their loved ones. And I am deeply moved by the way that this community – and our national community – has stood together in support of one another, in defiance of terror and in defense of our most cherished ideals.
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