contumacious
C2CEFR level
96/100Rarity: very rare
FormalRegister
General adjective
Stubbornly and wilfully disobedient to authority.
His contumacious refusal to answer the court earned him a night in the cells.
Law adjective
Wilfully disobedient to the authority or orders of a court.
His contumacious refusal to disclose the accounts drew a committal application.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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