word of the day: contumacious

The word of the day is contumacious:

stubbornly perverse or rebellious; willfully and obstinately disobedient (dictionary.com)

"The historic journey undertaken by a febrile and contumacious royal pack rat required a convoy of coaches to draggle her frou-frou, autograph albums, pharmacopoeia, and bric-a-brac through the countryside of her maternal granny's fabled escapades."

 - Karen Elizabeth Gordon, Out of the Loud Hound of Darkness: A Dictionarrative