[Lakeside]

' "Contumacious" is an excellent word to have in your vocabulary...'

Yeah, and how about "banausic"?

(I had to look that one up)

And now spell check didn't even recognize it.

[american colleen]

contumacious \kon-t(y)oo-MAY-shuhs; kon-tuh-\, adjective:
1. Exhibiting contempt for authority; obstinate; stubbornly disobedient.
2. (Law) Willfully disobedient to the summons or orders of a court.

As though our President didn't have enough to worry about, with the confusion on Kosovo policy and the collapse of the China World Trade Organization deal, now he must finally face the music on being contumacious about his concupiscence.
--Maureen Dowd, "Contempt, She Says," New York Times, April 14, 1999

A religious enemy... once described her as "an unstable, restless, disobedient and contumacious female."
--"Think Positive," The Economist, November 13, 1999

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Contumacious derives from Latin contumax, contumac-, insolent.

Synonyms: obdurate, disobedient, perverse, unyielding, headstrong; find more at Thesaurus.com.

[american colleen]

banausic

SYLLABICATION: ba·nau·sic
PRONUNCIATION: b-nôsk, -zk
ADJECTIVE: 1. Merely mechanical; routine: “a sensitive, self-conscious creature . . . in sad revolt against uncongenially banausic employment” (London Magazine). 2. Of or relating to a mechanic.
ETYMOLOGY: Greek banausikos, from banausos, mechanic.