obstinate

Adjective

• resistant to guidance or discipline
  • Mary Mary quite contrary
    
  • an obstinate child with a violent temper
    
  • a perverse mood
    
  • wayward behavior
    

• stubbornly persistent in wrongdoing

• tenaciously unwilling or marked by tenacious unwillingness to yield

Verb

• persist stubbornly
  • he obstinates himself against all rational arguments
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  contrary , perverse , wayward , cussed , obdurate , unrepentant , stubborn , unregenerate