Crossword-Solution: DEFIANCE 8 letters, 75 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 14

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Word Word Type Definition
Defiance n. The act of defying, putting in opposition, or provoking
to combat; a challenge; a provocation; a summons to combat.
Defiance n. A state of opposition; willingness to flight; disposition
to resist; contempt of opposition.
Defiance n. A casting aside; renunciation; rejection.

We have 75 clues for the answer “DEFIANCE”

Clue Answers
intentionally contemptuous behavior or attitude 1 answer
Refusal to obey 1 answer
Open resistance 1 answer
Headstrong trait 1 answer
CHALLENGE to maintain cause 1 answer
CHALLENGE to maintain assertion 1 answer
Active resistance 1 answer
Bold resistance 2 answers
answering back 3 answers
contumacy 4 answers
War-cry 5 answers
War cry 6 answers
insurgence 8 answers
Gage 8 answers
insubordination 8 answers
pertness 9 answers
Gauntlet 10 answers
CHARACTERIZED BY UNREST OR DISORDER OR INSUBORDINATION 10 answers
arrogation 11 answers
Glove 12 answers
factiousness 13 answers
bravado 14 answers
dissociation 15 answers
hubris 20 answers
Cartel 23 answers
frown 24 answers
TRAFALGAR Battle ship (Brit.) 25 answers
BRITISH ship 27 answers
Back Talk 28 answers
BRITISH battleship 28 answers
Disclaimer 30 answers
High tone? 30 answers
disbelief 31 answers
despite 38 answers
hardihood 38 answers
Disobedience 40 answers
Insolence 44 answers
Effrontery 45 answers
armour 45 answers
boldness 46 answers
Backbone 46 answers
Chutzpah 47 answers
Disrespect 48 answers
Audacity 49 answers
Arrogance 50 answers
dissent 51 answers
gang war 54 answers
insurrection 55 answers
Disdain 55 answers
unbelief 56 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
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Sentences with DEFIANCE (5)

But when Hiawatha saw him Slowly rising through the water, Lifting up his disk refulgent, Loud he shouted in derision, “Esa! esa! shame upon you! You are Ugudwash, the sun-fish, You are not the fish I wanted, You are not the King of Fishes!” Slowly downward, wavering, gleaming, Sank the Ugudwash, the sun-fish, And again the sturgeon, Nahma, Heard the shout of Hiawatha, Heard his challenge of defiance, The unnecessary tumult, Ringing far across the water.
The Song Of Hiawatha Henry W. Longfellow 1991
Shoot, shoot,—and be damned! _I won’t be tied!_” This he said in a tone of loud defiance; and at the same time, with a motion as quick as lightning, he with one single stroke dashed the pistols from the hand of each constable.
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass Frederick Douglass 1992
Storr, BA Formerly Scholar of Trinity College, Cambridge From the Loeb Library Edition Originally published by Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA and William Heinemann Ltd, London First published in 1912 ARGUMENT Antigone, daughter of Oedipus, the late king of Thebes, in defiance of Creon who rules in his stead, resolves to bury her brother Polyneices, slain in his attack on Thebes.
The Oedipus Trilogy Sophocles 2000
They would take neither the glow of passion nor the tenderness of sentiment, but retained all the rigidity of dead corpses, and stared me in the face with a fixed and ghastly grin of contemptuous defiance.
The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne 1992
Hyde appeared to hesitate, and then, as if upon some sudden reflection, fronted about with an air of defiance; and the pair stared at each other pretty fixedly for a few seconds.
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Robert Louis Stevenson 1992

Quotes with DEFIANCE (3)

Veganism is an act of nonviolent defiance. It is our statement that we reject the notion that animals are things and that we regard sentient nonhumans as moral persons with the fundamental moral right not to be treated as the property or resources of humans.
Gary L. Francione
Battles like that . . .” My voice lowered. “They look like they come down to one person or one action in one big, flashy moment, but they don’t. Major victories come in inches. Each action, each sacrifice, every small act of defiance adds up..
Kaitlin Bevis Aphrodite
Mac Kenzie grinned at Mim. "They love the modern appliances.""Especially the electric floor sweeper," Valor chuckled." Defiance really has a thing for the vacuum cleaner," Mac Kenzie agreed in a secretive whisper." If he ever has kids, he'll probably name the first one Hoover," Havoc snickered.
Taylor Longford
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Used 4 times in crossword archives (1998–2016).