The word defiant is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe when someone is boldly resistant or disobedient to something. Example sentence: Sarah remained defiant in the face of her parents' disapproval.
Returning to the stage at the age of 70, she triumphed in the 2001 Broadway revival of Stephen Sondheim's Follies as Carlotta, singing from the heart "I'm Still Here", the defiant anthem for all female stars with Bergen's staying power.
"People here in town think I'm making a huge mistake," he said in defiant remarks on the Senate floor on Sunday, as he in effect rendered some NSA and FBI tactics inoperable.
It is staunchly pro-US, but has a sometimes defiant stance towards other European partners, which has created tensions in the past with the EU and neighbouring Germany.
You can see him falling on his metaphorical sword with defiant elan.
His claim for a pay-off was filed with US regulators and, in a defiant interview with the Financial Times, Charney said he was "the best man for this job" at the company, which was on the brink of collapse three years ago.
Three Oxford University students who say they were sexually assaulted are preparing to write about their harrowing ordeals for the first time, inspired by a fellow undergraduate who penned a defiant open letter to her attacker.
Jonathan Kent's production this evocation of the rackety world of American vaudeville – with music by Jule Styne, lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by Arthur Laurents – boasted a breathtaking performance from Imelda Staunton, who played Mama Rose not as some implacable monster but as a jaunty, defiant woman seeking surrogate stardom through the showbiz success of her two daughters.
Five-thousand members of the Women's Institute have gathered to mark 100 years of their foundation, and as the defiant "Ladies Toilett" signs stuck on the doors of the gents' affirm, for one day at least, this is decidedly a women's world.
The author Hilary Mantel has delivered a defiant response to criticism from Tory MPs and rightwing commentators of her imagined account of the killing of Margaret Thatcher by an IRA sniper.
Related: Defiant Sepp Blatter vows to fix Fifa as pressure mounts to resign The Russian president also suggested the charges were in part a retaliation against Fifa for having made his country the host of the 2018 World Cup, hinting at the acrimonious relations between the west and the Kremlin over the Russia's military action in Ukraine.
A defiant Len McCluskey, leader of the super-union Unite, which backed the changes, said trade union involvement in the party would increase.
