Contumacious

Meaning

Obstinately disobedient or rebellious; insubordinate.

Occurrences

In Plutarch's Greek Lives, on Theseus: »In any case, however, where it shall be found contumaciously slighting credibility, and refusing to be reduced to anything like probable fact, we shall beg that we may meet with candid readers, and such as will receive with indulgence the stories of antiquity.«