Synonyms for defying
de·fy·ing

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1. List of paraphrases for "defying":

   challenging, defiant, defy, braving

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1. Martin Luther King, Jr.:

   In no sense do I advocate evading or defying the law ... That would lead to anarchy. An individual who breaks a law that his conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for law.

2. Ralph Waldo Emerson:

   The key to every man is his thought. Sturdy and defying though he look, he has a helm which he obeys, which is the idea after which all his facts are classified. He can only be reformed by showing him a new idea which commands his own.

3. Ohio Senate:

   [President] Joe Biden has basically launched a modern-style hunger games, which almost challenges these migrants who have no hope in their home country to make this death-defying journey.

4. George Chapman:

   The young always have the same problem- how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.

5. Neil Saunders:

   After a year of defying gravity, the slowing economy and pressures on consumers have finally caught up with Home Depot, for most of 2022, the number of existing homes sold has been in decline. However, the pace of decline accelerated in December with the volume of completed sales down by a sharp 36.3%.