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• But it has the same punchy energy, the same defiant pessimism, and there’s nothing around like it.2017 January 19, Peter Bradshaw, “T2 Trainspotting review – choose a sequel that doesn't disappoint”, in The Guardian. From the entry pessimism
• He and his two best friends, Diggy (Kiersey Clemons) and Jib (Tony Revolori), are defiant counterstereotypes.2015 June 18, A. O. Scott, “Review: ‘Dope,’ a Teenage Comedy, Plays With Stereotypes”, in New York Times. From the entry counterstereotype
• Sarkozy gave a defiant speech, going on the offensive and betraying no hint of having been beaten.2012 April 23, Angelique Chrisafis, “François Hollande on top but far right scores record result in French election”, in the Guardian. From the entry overture
• "No, this was more a night of bellowed barbed badinage, boisterous BS, outrageous declamations and defiant roars."2005 October 31, The Times, London. From the entry badinage
• Ditto for Uma Thurman, whose loose blonde strands were defiant in their scraggliness.2002 April 18, Hollywood's Such a Mess These Days: Left and right, stars wear their hear unkept, Lexington Herald-Leader, p. E3 (retrieved…. From the entry scraggliness
• Smohalla attracted groups of defiant, antireservation Indians to his community near Priest Rapids.1998, Barry Pritzker, Native Americans: An Encyclopedia of History, Culture, and Peoples, →ISBN, page 354. From the entry antireservation
• Hope Leezum, invincibly hairbowed by now, pigtails at a defiant angle, adores the company.1980, Hope Cooke, Time Change: An Autobiography, New York, N.Y.: Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 185. From the entry hairbowed
• Carrados divined an exchange of private glances, expostulatory from the husband, playfully defiant on her part.1927, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], Max Carrados Mysteries. From the entry expostulatory
• Not angry, not defiant, just a little triste.2025 October 12, Simon Tisdall, “France is not alone in its crisis of political faith – belief in a democratic world is vanishing”, in The…. From the entry triste
• He has the look of Bruce Lee down pat, with the same defiant expression and spare but muscled frame.2008 October 10, Clifford Coonan, “The Bruce Lee legend”, in The Independent, UK, retrieved 04 Nov 2008. From the entry down pat
• In one brave and defiant performance, she redefined the patriarchal constructions of beauty, femininity, and womynhood for all who saw her.2008, Laurie J Kendall, The Michigan Womyn's Music Festival. From the entry womynhood
• They are — apathy, lack of interest in the surroundings, defiant behavior (hypercompensation of the inferiority complex), etc.2008, Vladimir Antonov, Spiritual Work With Children, page 60. From the entry hypercompensation
• Florence Mars, a diminutive woman barely five feet tall, seemed an unlikely candidate for the defiant role she assumed.2006 April 29, Nadine Brozan, “Florence L[atimer] Mars, 83, Who Was Spurned for Rights Work, Dies”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.…. From the entry mars
• He stands there and launches into a tauparapara or traditional chant, accompanied by vigorous actions and defiant brandishings of his stick.1989, Richard Bauman, Joel Sherzer, Explorations in the Ethnography of Speaking, page 195. From the entry brandishing
• It is a note scornful, defiant, often ribald and profane, that comes into the songs of the goliards and troubadours.1920, A. S. Turberville, Mediæval Heresy & the Inquisition, London: Crosby Lockwood and Son. From the entry goliard
• In the ghetto, the gentle Barber romances a defiant washerwoman, Hannah, who is played by Chaplin's wife at the time, Paulette Goddard.2021 February 5, Nicholas Barber, “The Great Dictator: The film that dared to laugh at Hitler”, in BBC. From the entry romance
• Ostracism from mainstream opinion is one of the grounds which the alt-Right presents for wearing racism as a defiant badge of pride.2021 December 30, Richard Shorten, The Ideology of Political Reactionaries, Routledge, →ISBN. From the entry vice signalling
• The president's supporters . . . are trying to exert greater control over universities, touching a nerve among an increasingly defiant student movement.2007 November 8, Simon Romero, “Gunmen attack opponents of Chávez's bid to extend power”, in The New York Times, archived from the…. From the entry touch a nerve
• Then escaping from the foemen, boltered with the blood you shed, you, defiant, fearing no men, saved your honor and your head!.2001, Gayden Wren, A Most Ingenious Paradox: The Art of Gilbert and Sullivan. From the entry bolter
• Everything large or small is carried atop out of habit as much as necessity, like a delightful but defiant challenge to the laws of gravity.1985, Wade Davis, The Serpent and the Rainbow, Simon & Schuster, page 52. From the entry atop
• Iceland were defiant, as they always are, rigid in defence and lacking in attacking ambition, willing to simply keep England at arm's length and maybe land a counter-punch.2020 September 5, Phil McNulty, “Iceland 0-1 England”, in BBC Sport. From the entry at arm's length
• When he looks at her she wears a secretive smile, the knowledge of their act between them like a thauma'd thing, laced with the unguilt of defiant exploration.2015, Micah Blacklight, Chapter Twenty-One: Songhai. From the entry unguilt
• Lots of OLD SOUTH AFRICAN FLAGS -- the blue, white and orange apartheid flag -- make a defiant statement against the NEW SOUTH AFRICAN FLAGS ringing the stadium.2007, Anthony Peckham, INVICTUS (aka "The Human Factor"). From the entry apartheid flag
• He was the defiant homesteader, the crusty senior member of a research team who understood Algol and Fortran but couldn't read the secrets of his own heart.1972, Thomas M. Disch, 334. From the entry FORTRAN
• Their women, being a mixture of negro and native Indian, possessed a defiant beauty, not unlike that of an equivalent racial mixture, the “Brass Ankle” girls at Charleston.1937, Richardson Little Wright, “Ⅸ”, in Revels in Jamaica, 1682–1838, Binghamton, New York: Vail-Ballou Press, →OCLC, →OL, Maroon Fun…. From the entry brass ankle
• And next time” — she threw a defiant glance at the young man — “you can count on me to go along with you — even into that ultradimensional universe.”1937, Astounding Stories: Lost in the Dimensions, page 58. From the entry ultradimensional

Meaning of defiant

1. adjective Defying.
2. adjective Boldly resisting opposition.
3. noun One who defies opposition.

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Questions about defiant in a sentence

How do you use defiant in a sentence?

Defiant is used as an adjective and noun. For example: “She paused and took a defiant breath. ‘If you don't believe me, I can't help it.”

What is a short sentence with defiant?

“Not angry, not defiant, just a little triste.”

What does defiant mean?

Defiant means defying.