“dissenter, dissident, enfant terrible; informalcowboy, loose cannon, bad boy “...not all good.
But the Establishment uses the word Maverick as a GOOD thing.
We need courageous leaders who will call it as it is, not play cute little word tricks (if that is what she is doing) using it to connote something bad. That would be underhanded and inappropriate.
You left out the big one - 'SONGBIRD'