uncooperativeness

Examples of uncooperative

uncooperative
They were uncooperative, disorganised and argued and played very loudly to the extent that they were disruptive.
Using the machinery of an uncooperative host sounds trivial until you have tried to actually work at someone else's laboratory bench.
Given that independent positioning usually produced cooperative responses, one might have expected dependent positioning to elicit a greater number of uncooperative responses.
If the targeted respondent was not available or uncooperative, the next household was chosen to ensure that the needed sample size was achieved.
While friendly princes were assets, however, uncooperative ones could be liabilities; they might obstruct attempts to exploit their resources or to modernize their governments.
Most international systems are not composed of a high proportion of exploitive and essentially uncooperative agents.
The next school on the national list replaced uncooperative or inaccessible schools.
In most cases, however, most language users cannot easily be questioned on their intentions because these users may be unidentifiable, uncooperative, or dead.
We have seen that the uncooperative static equilibrium produces an inefficient outcome.
Thus, the less-than-expected incidence of uncooperative responses to dependent positioning could be attributed to the staff's use of a personalised approach.
At first, he refused to co-operate with them and was extremely uncooperative revealing very little detailed information.
Where this relationship is uncooperative, monitoring and investment activities suffer.
Unfortunately, the psychological state and psychosocial morbidity may be missed as it masquerades under somatic symptoms, noncompliance, defiance or uncooperative, paranoid, and hateful behavior.
Uncooperative responses to independent positioning might suggest that residents prefer being treated as a persona that needs assistance.
Some wives resented what they saw as uncooperative behaviour and unreasonable demands.
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