Because she thinks that he is wrong is the reason why Antigone defies Creon in "Antigone" by Sophocles (495 B.C.E. - 405 B.C.E.).Specifically, Theban King Creon issues a royal edict by which Theban loyalists are honored with below-ground burials and funeral rites but by which those same god-given rights are denied his perceived enemies. One of the Thebans who will be left above ground to be ravaged by weather and wildlife is Princess Antigone's brother Polyneices. Antigone decides that it is wrong to defy divine will and Theban traditions and that it is right to defy Creon.
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a good scentence for defy is, "i would not defy my fathers orders."
The word defy is a verb. Defy means to reject or to refuse.
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It doesn't, nothing can defy gravity.
Teiresias the blind prophet warns Theban King Creon about the precariousness of his own happiness and security. He indicates that just as Thebans suffer great sorrow, so too will Teiresias. Specifically, he cautions the King to beware of the rounds that Death and Misfortune are making in the city of Thebes. Tesiresas essentially asks why Creon should think that his household and his position will be spared when atraditional laws defy the gods and the god given rights of Thebans.
I defy you to give me a worthwhile sentence! It was not wise of the defendant to defy the court's initial ruling.
The plural of defy is defies. As in "this defies the laws of gravity".