1. Deliberate and stubborn unruliness and resistance to guidance or discipline
   - perversity, perverseness 
2. A fussy and eccentric disposition
   - crankiness, crotchetiness, grumpiness

Derived forms: contrarinesses

See also: contrary

Type of: fractiousness, ill nature, unruliness, wilfulness [Brit, Cdn], willfulness [N. Amer]

• betimes
• betoken
• betony
• betray
• betrayal
• betrayer
• betroth
• betrothal
• betrothed
• Betsy Griscom Ross
• Betsy Ross
• Bette Davis
• cardiac arrest
• cardiac arrhythmia
• cardiac cycle
• cardiac glucoside
• cardiac glycoside
• cardiac insufficiency
• cardiac massage
• cardiac monitor
• cardiac murmur
• cardiac muscle
• cardiac output
• cardiac pacemaker
• cardiac plexus