(a.) Full of defiance; bold; insolent; as, a defiant spirit or act.
Example Sentences:
(1) It comes in defiant journalism, like the story televised last week of a gardener in Aleppo who was killed by bombs while tending his roses and his son, who helped him, orphaned.
(2) As the US and the European Union adopted tougher economic sanctions against Russia over the conflict in eastern Ukraine and downing of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 , Russian officials struck a defiant note, promising that Russia would localise production and emerge stronger than before.
(3) Twitter and Facebook were filling up with pictures of proud, defiant Afghans holding up fingers stained with ink.
(4) We're kicking off with Spain, where prime minister Mariano Rajoy has defiantly insisted that he would not accept a bailout which would force him to inflict further spending cuts or tax rises on the Spanish people Spanish prime minister Mariano Rajoy answers journalists questions during last night's interview on the national Spanish Public Television (TVE).
(5) Barack Obama's policy of engagement with North Korea lies "in tatters" after it was effectively shot down by Pynongyang's defiant but failed attempt to launch a long-range rocket.
(6) The Greek government’s defiant stance came as the head of the Hellenic Chambers of Commerce , Constantine Michalos, said he did not believe Greece’s banks would be able to reopen next Tuesday without further funding, telling the Daily Telegraph he had been told cash reserves were down to €500m.
(7) Yesterday, however, a defiant Luzhkov – who has run Russia's capital like a personal fiefdom since 1992 – returned home.
(8) She told the court she would not be broken by imprisonment, even if she had to spend 15 or 20 years behind bars, and issued a number of defiant statements from detention.
(9) The defiant Philippine leader has responded to critics with a string of outbursts, including labelling the US ambassador to Manila a “gay son of a whore” , telling the Catholic church “don’t fuck with me” , and accusing the UN of issuing “shitting” statements about his anti-drugs policies.
(10) We must wait to see how the stand-off between aggressive regulator and defiant bank plays out, but what's clear is that these allegations come at the worst possible time for the City.
(11) Further analyses of subgroups of hyperactives at outcome, formed on the presence or absence of ADHD and oppositional defiant disorder (ODD), indicated that the presence of ODD accounted for most of the differences between hyperactives and normals on the interaction measures, ratings of home conflicts, and ratings of maternal psychological distress.
(12) Halifa Sallah, the spokesman for Barrow’s coalition, said he expected Jammeh to change his defiant position when he saw that the military were no longer with him, which he thought would happen imminently.
(13) Many commentators considered the suggestion merely foolish, but computer hackers issued death threats against her and her children, which she promptly posted on Twitter, along with the defiant message: "Get stuffed, losers.
(14) Zarif sounded more defiant notes when asked about Iranian human rights and regional stability.
(15) Frequently, the uncooperative patient is labeled as having a poor or defiant attitude toward orthodontic treatment.
(16) The system of government he had built was defiantly non-western, relying not on institutions but on individuals, key power-brokers prized for their loyalty and forgiven for faults that horrified overseas observers.
(17) The women remained defiant throughout the trial, issuing powerful closing statements that quickly entered the canon of Russia's dissident speeches.
(18) "I didn't come here to apologise," Bush told world leaders in a defiant seven-minute speech, even as the IPS daily conference newspaper Terra Viva led off with the story in an arresting headline: "US President Snubs His Nose at Rest of the World."
(19) A defiant Balls claimed last week that, with the chancellor missing his borrowing targets this autumn, voters would start to turn Labour's way next year.
(20) Tatchell told the Guardian he received a defiant message from Chimbalanga that said: "I love Steven so much.
Deviant
Definition:
(a.) Deviating.
Example Sentences:
(1) Moreover, not all investigators have ensured that schizophrenic subjects belong to that group which does show deviant speech structures.
(2) Questionnaire responses from upper-status junior and senior high school students show the importance of perceived parental pressure in understanding adolescent self-esteem and deviant behavior.
(3) Males who believe they consumed alcohol show increased arousal to deviant stimuli (rape, violent erotica) compared to males who are told to expect no alcohol.
(4) It was assumed that a deviant stimulus can elicit a MMN only when the neuronal representation of the previous standard stimulus still exists.
(5) Previous experiments with picture sorting and matching tasks have shown aphasics to give more deviant responses than controls when decisions require the identification of single features of concepts, whereas their responses are close to normal whenever decisions have to be based on the relative overlap of broad associative fields.
(6) Therefore, the girls in the present study might be either more psychiatrically disturbed or have more deviant personalities than the boys, which might explain why our hypothesis about a lower thrombocyte MAO activity in the adolescents with externalizing symptoms (group I) was verified only in the girls.
(7) Several of them appeared to be sexually deviant, although they did not meet DSM-III-R criteria for a diagnosis of paraphilia.
(8) This study was conducted to determine whether deviant-speaking children can understand their own speech productions when these productions are presented to them from an external source (tape recorder).
(9) We conclude that immune privilege is extended to histoincompatible developing retinal transplants placed in the AC of the eye, and that these allografts induce a deviant systemic immune response characterized by impaired expression of delayed hypersensitivity and generation of splenic suppressor cells.
(10) The present study examined the vigilance performance of 16 behaviorally deviant and 16 nodeviant children and suggested that the vigilance paradigm might serve as a basis for a standardized test of continuous attention in children.
(11) For deviant kel values of a one-compartment model, the most accurate recovery of ko occurred with the area function method and nonlinear least-squares regression, followed by the Wagner-Nelson and moment analysis methods.
(12) The deviant stimuli elicited in addition to N100m a second deflection, MMNm, peaking at about 200 msec.
(13) However, the stress associated with maternally toxic doses can be expected to result in associated, often transient, fetal abnormalities that may not be the result of deviant organogenesis.
(14) The testosterone level in deviant males was about five times higher than that of normal displaying males.
(15) Ahmadinejad's unwavering support for Mashaei, who is accused of running a "deviant current", has cost him a great deal of influence over Iranian politics and has put him at adds with Khamenei.
(16) Improving family wealth will also improve the nutritional status of the median growers, but less so than for the negative deviants.
(17) application of 1-5HTP represents a practicable strategy for investigating biochemical hypotheses as to serotonin mediated normal and deviant human behaviour, especially in affective disorders.
(18) The aggressive teenagers differed from the non-aggressive subjects firstly in their alcohol, tobacco and illicit drug consumption, and secondly with respect to other deviant behaviour, such as stealing, running away from home or violent victimization.
(19) Myths that suggest that the obese are inactive, eat differently, or eat more junk food suggest that obese individuals are socially deviant and justifies the intense discrimination directed against them.
(20) This work identified an important attitude of Nigerians namely that behaviour is controlled from outside including deviant behaviour.