renitent (?.)
- antagonistic
- antipathetic
- apathetic
- backward
- balking
- balky
- breakaway
- clashing
- complaining
- conflicting
- contradicting
- contradictory
- counteractant
- counteracting
- counteractive
- countervailing
- counterworking
- cranky
- crotchety
- dilatory
- disputatious
- disputing
- dissentient
- dissenting
- dissident
- firm
- fractious
- grudging
- hostile
- indifferent
- inimical
- laggard
- loath
- nonconformist
- noncooperative
- objecting
- obstructive
- on the barricades
- opposing
- oppositional
- oppugnant
- perfunctory
- perverse
- pokerlike
- proof against
- protesting
- ramrodlike
- reactionary
- rebellious
- recalcitrant
- refractory
- reluctant
- repellent
- repugnant
- resistant
- resisting
- resistive
- restive
- retardant
- retardative
- revolutionary
- rigid
- rodlike
- slow
- slow to
- starched
- starchy
- stiff
- stiff as buckram
- taut
- tense
- tight
- uncooperative
- unenthusiastic
- unrelaxed
- unsubmissive
- unyielding
- unzealous
- up in arms
- virgate
- withstanding
