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To defiant
adjective
Defying.
synonyms
Exact(21)
— her delivery moved from droll to defiant.
It may now offer a haven in Sinai to defiant Muslim Brothers in the wake of Mr Morsi's downfall.
Even as his voice and expression change from haughty to defiant to despairing, Mr. Firth's Bertie strives to maintain a lofty demeanor.
Its soloists traced arcs from vintage Cuban romance to defiant modernist dissonance, and Mr. Alemany himself reached for airborne high notes.
Wittily illustrated by Nick Maland, packed with humour and just enough heartache to keep readers involved, this charming novel is a real treat, with eccentricity replacing the original's cruelty and silent suffering giving way to defiant stoicism.
As he worries in English-subtitled Dutch, his mood ranges from irritable to defiant to abject.
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"He has the guts to say what he wants to, to be defiant and be controversial.
"Basically, when we started, we wanted to be defiant to club owners, who had certain ways they wanted the music to be," Mr. Garcia said.
From the luxuriant hair to the defiant pose to the silken red dress, there is nothing not regal about this photograph.
I noticed that he seemed to relish and even seek out confrontation, to actively look for ways to be defiant.
For another, sending Chen to America means good riddance to a defiant voice.
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