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 defiant [di'faiәnt]   添加此单词到默认生词本
a. 挑衅的, 目中无人的

  1. She talked to us with a defiant manner.
    她用蔑视的态度和我们说话。
  2. What he said showed he was really defiant.
    他所说的话显示出他真是目中无人。
  3. Chanted defiant slogans.
    反复呼喊抗议口号


defiant
[ adj ]
boldly resisting authority or an opposing force
<adj.all>
brought up to be aggressive and defianta defiant attitude


Defiant \De*fi"ant\, a. [Cf. F. d['e]fiant, p. pr. of d['e]fier.
See {Defy}.]
Full of defiance; bold; insolent; as, a defiant spirit or
act.

In attitude stern and defiant. --Longfellow.
-- {De*fi"ant*ly}, adv. -- {De*fi"ant*ness}, n.

  1. Security police today seized a second recording of a defiant sermon by Archbishop Desmond Tutu, and a pro-government newspaper said authorities should not be reluctant to prosecute him.
  2. Perhaps more worrisome, it's possible that Saddam Hussein may be able to steadily build popular support for his defiant stand around the Arab world.
  3. She can move too, particularly in the old Benny Goodman number "Stompin' at the Savoy" and in a wild, defiant "Take It Right Back" that concludes the first act.
  4. The president was also characteristically defiant about Iraq's execution in March of Farzad Bazoft, an Iranian-born British journalist accused of espionage.
  5. In Gdansk, thousands of police surrounded a shipyard in a tense standoff with defiant strikers.
  6. He also sounded a defiant note, urging Arabs to rise up and overthrow leaders in countries aligned against him.
  7. Saddam's defiant call to take back the Moslem shrines signaled his intentions are broader than the annexation of Kuwait.
  8. A defiant Davis was ringed by eight court officers when the sentence was handed down.
  9. I will do what I have to do," said Henry Spallone, one of the defiant councilmen.
  10. Probably ready-peeled-and-pipped grapes, marketed as 'the ultimate gift for the sick.' In the face of all this hideous trimming, I am defiant.
  11. During a demonstration Feb. 24, police opened fire to stop defiant Moslems from marching to the British consulate, killing 13 people.
  12. In a savagely defiant final tableau, von Stade's Merteuil - in a harsh caricature of Strauss' Capriccio Countess departing for a dinner of Weltschmerz - exits with the raspy, vulgar exclamation, 'I'm hungry.'
  13. During the 1937 siege of Madrid, her defiant phrase _ "They shall not pass!" _ became the battle cry of loyalist Republican forces.
  14. A defiant Lorenzo also said Wednesday that Texas Air's Eastern Airlines subsidiary will start turning a profit next year, despite the strikebound carrier's enormous debts and bankruptcy proceeding.
  15. His parents, still in mourning clothes two weeks later, became defiant in their grief when asked if they would stop their seven other children from joining protests.
  16. A defiant Saddam Hussein vowed Tuesday that he will never back down despite growing international pressure to withdraw his forces from Kuwait.
  17. He said they probably will be cited for defiant trespass.
  18. Meanwhile, in nationally televised hearings, a defiant Oliver North emerged from his shadowy world, one of pseudonyms and codes and furtive border crossings, to confront his legislative tormentors.
  19. As the tension mounted, students remained defiant. "I'm not afraid to die," shouted one hunger striker who vowed not to eat until the student demands were met.
  20. The ordeal of the 1979 hostage-taking at the U.S. Embassy in Tehran and the defiant nature of Iran's Islamic revolution still stick in the American craw.
  21. During the standoffs at the Ganienkeh Indian Territory, powerful automatic weapons were brandished by defiant Mohawks who said they were ready to take on troopers.
  22. Looking subdued but defiant, the coup leaders yesterday reiterated their claim that former Soviet leader Mr Mikhail Gorbachev had been implicated in the coup, and that President Yeltsin's control of the media was denying them a fair trial.
  23. Though his latest works have made their own kind of peace with the tonal tradition (he is 80 now), that symphony represents his most defiant earlier distancing.
  24. With those defiant words, Mr. Barayi, the president of the Congress of South African Trade Unions, opened the federation's national conference here yesterday.
  25. Three defiant teen-agers, including one who challenged the judge to "Give me the max," received maximum sentences Tuesday of five to 10 years in prison for the rape and assault of a woman jogger in Central Park.
  26. The anonymous poster that went up at Lanzhou University in the first month of classes was defiant.
  27. The defiant tack taken by international bond dealers at their annual conference last week suggests that Britain's bid to regulate the Eurobond market still faces resistance.
  28. The Lithuanians have adopted a less defiant attitude, and the Soviets have dropped hints that they are open to negotiations.
  29. In an unnerving series of transformations, he changes from the bewildered Lee to his defiant brother to the boy's haughty mother.
  30. In a defiant videotaped message made after he fled, the raspy-voiced leader of a movement for freedom choked back tears as he accused authorities of crushing students with tanks and burning bodies on Tiananmen Square.
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