How to use "recalcitrant" in sentences with meaning in English and Hindi

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Example sentences for "recalcitrant" in popular movie and book plots

• Ballantyne on the other hand is a swashbuckling adventurer and recalcitrant soldier who is in his prime.  - The Triumph of the Sun
• Brahmasthram tells the story of a boatman, whose only daughter Sindhu is the victim of ragging and rape by some rich recalcitrant students in medical college.  - Brahmasthram (2010 film)
• With the aid of, among other diverse items, a bayonetted rifle, a Xanax-laced bottle of ketchup, a mace-wielding suit of armor, an ill-fitting red dress, a recalcitrant thumbtack, a convenient gust of wind, and an unsuspected fly in the ointment—the classic British detective story and our protagonists' reputations are ultimately rescued from a premature demise.  - Over My Dead Body (play)
• Once the Reverend is able to get the recalcitrant residents to speak about the ongoing troubles, he finds his spiritual leadership is being challenged by a cult of devil worshippers who practice voodoo, and have to get to the heart of a strange relationship between a mute young girl and a gunslinger who seem possessed by Satanic spirits.  - Black Noon
• Atavars are given chances to conform; the recalcitrant ones are fed to a kraken outside the dome of Atlantis, in a ceremony reminiscent of the Christian sacrifices in the Colosseum of ancient Rome.  - The Scarlet Empire
• A recalcitrant Ben Boxer offers to make the Man of Steel into a cyborg like himself.  - Superman: At Earth's End
• ignoring the deal he had with Brennan, due to Bob's recalcitrant attitude.  - Johnny Apollo (film)
• Dawes, in turn, urges Eastman to help him convince the recalcitrant tribal leaders.  - Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (film)
• Prew reconnects with Maggio, who is in the "Number Two" barracks where the hardest and most recalcitrant prisoners are kept.  - From Here to Eternity (novel)
• Later, at the teahouse, Okimi tries to directly persuade the recalcitrant Miyoei to accede to Kusuda's proposal.  - A Geisha
• He sets out, taking his recalcitrant son, also named Jacques, with him.  - Molloy (novel)
• 12: In a resistance safehouse, Igan tries to recruit a recalcitrant Svengaard.  - The Eyes of Heisenberg
• This approach is sometimes useful - especially when suspects are to be overawed and intimidated, or recalcitrant local officials intimidated into fully cooperating with an investigation.  - Celebrated Cases of Judge Dee
• In response, the previous recalcitrant Richard resumes the witness chair and testifies about Ellen's insane jealousy and her dual confessions to him.  - Leave Her to Heaven

Example sentences for "recalcitrant" in interesting articles

• Figuring out what recalcitrant programs were doing and routing around media defects were core skills for computer programmers, especially in the era of fragile floppy disks and the rough-and-ready early days of software development.  - Lockdown - The coming war on general-purpose computing
• Soviet agricultural collectivisation incurred millions of foreseeable deaths, mainly as a result of starvation, with deportation to uninhabitable regions, life-threatening conditions in the Gulag and military-style operations against recalcitrant villages also playing an important role.  - John Gray: Steven Pinker is wrong about violence and war
• Instead of reprimanding the recalcitrant doctors, Ketchum debated them.  - Decades after a Cold War experiment, a scientist lives with secrets (2012)
• In many of my own projects, I found myself compelled to pacify recalcitrant data with entirely confected numbers.  - The management myth (2006)
• In many of my own projects, I found myself compelled to pacify recalcitrant data with entirely confected numbers.  - The Management Myth (2006)
• These days the “us-against-them” mentality of recalcitrant unions and thickheaded managers is widely denounced, but the caste system created by educational credentials has a similarly divisive effect.For much of my adult life I have lived among those who have “had it good” on the meritocracy’s terms.  - The Case Against Credentialism (1985)
• In many of my own projects, I found myself compelled to pacify recalcitrant data with entirely confected numbers.  - The Management Myth: Want to succeed in business? Study philosophy

Meaning of "recalcitrant" in English

• marked by stubborn resistance to authority
• stubbornly resistant to authority or control
  Example
  - a refractory child
  

Meaning of "recalcitrant" in Hindi

• उद्दण्ड ( Uddand)

Synonyms of "recalcitrant"

• fractious
• refractory

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