Recalcitrant- #silversqueeze having an obstinately uncooperative attitude toward authority or discipline. 'a class of recalcitrant fifteen-year-olds' synonyms: uncooperative, obstinately disobedient, intractable, unmanageable, ungovernable, refractory, insubordinate, defiant, rebellious, mutinous, willful, wayward, headstrong, self-willed, contrary, perverse, difficult, awkward, obdurate, bloody-minded, bolshie, stroppy, contumacious, froward, renitent, pervicacious