defiance

• Ever since then the boy had walked among the Fuzby people with open scorn and defiance, as among those whose slanders had done to death the father whom he so proudly loved. —  St. Winifred's, or The World of School
• Indignity and defeat were symbolized by its overrunning; it was an arrogant defiance, an outrageous challenge offered to every man happening by. —  Greener Than You Think
• Barry has some sort of an acquaintance with this Percival fellow, and when he proclaimed his intentions, Percival jumped on him with a flat defiance--told him that he had proof of a disreputable affair in Barry's career that would queer him with the whole community. —  Jewel Weed
• Their rounded tops had no defiance, their curve was that of a wave without the desire to break, held in its perfect contour by its own content. —  Moor Fires
• His proud defiance, the haughtiness of his countenance, his stinging words, formed a personality that made him the pet of the people Danton, the Minister of Justice, dared not kill him, and so he did the next best thing--he took him to his heart and made him his right-hand man. —  Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Volume 7 Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Orators

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