The phrase "actively defies" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe someone or something that is openly and deliberately resisting or opposing a rule, authority, or expectation.
Example: "The student actively defies the school's dress code by wearing whatever he likes."
Alternatives: "openly challenges" or "boldly opposes".
Often actively defies or refuses to comply with adult requests or rules.
The official symptoms of ODD include: "often actively defies or refuses to comply with adult requests or rules," and "often argues with adults".
The top three "symptoms" are "(1) often loses temper, (2) often argues with adults, and (3) often actively defies or refuses to comply with adults' requests or rules".
And for his part, Mr. Dole had taken to actively defying their efforts to protect him from himself.
The Obama administration is facing pressure from critics to more actively defy Chinese claims and to reassure smaller Asian allies that the biggest Asian power won't be permitted to expand unabated.
He told me that over these past couple of weeks he has fielded dozens of phone calls from churches, universities, and cities about the movement of the nineteen-eighties, with callers wanting to know how the sanctuaries worked and how hard it was to actively defy the federal government.
(The police in Albuquerque are, however, actively defying the new law, demonstrating yet again the way in which police departments believe the rules don't apply to them).
If punk means, or should mean, actively and effectively defying one's captors and their sundry bullshits, then being a muchy, polyphonic girl at this moment is, bien sûr, punk as fuck, especially when you can see past the whole deal with being aggro and mouthy and overt by necessity and can maybe be an actual, tender, many-things human instead of a cartoon about it.
[Laughs] The film defies the wedding genre, it is actively questioning the tradition of marriage.
But Chief Michale Yates told Jane Velez Mitchell on HLN that the death is "definitely bizarre and defies logic at first glance". "We are actively trying to determine how that happened," Yates said.
She says she understands why some are either anxious or actively hostile – and, just to underline the fact that what people say about migration often defies easy categorisation, lays some blame on people from eastern Europe.
