uncooperative

A U.S. diplomat once spoke with bitterness of the breadth of his power when negotiating with an uncooperative dictator.

He bragged in the same interview that he had once knocked out an uncooperative horse with a single punch.

But as an uncooperative member of an uncooperative minority, he has little ability to move legislation.

Gongaware had past dealings with Jackson, though, and he had a plan to handle their uncooperative star.

Airport officials chased four-year-old girl after calling an uncooperative suspect.

Because it is almost unknown country: there are indications that the heathen who occupy it are uncooperative.

They were exceedingly uncooperative at first, and Ross was glad he had tried to move only from his bunk to a waiting chair.

He had his mind set on a certain young lady who lived there, but up to this time she had been uncooperative.

His friends told him that his uncooperative attitude was bound to get him into trouble.

Unless their conduct is considered intolerably uncooperative, they are not denied the ordinary prison privileges.