disobedience
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4.2
- noun
- /ˌdɪsəˈbiːdiəns/
:
desobediencia
- Her disobedience to the teacher's rules resulted in a detention.
- civil disobedience
- acts of disobedience
- disobedience to authority
So like disobedience has always been a problem.
- So like disobedience has always been a problem.
- Together they created a mutation, a monster, a culture of disobedience, rebellion and chaos.
- A lot of what we go through is based on our disobedience.
- I was like, even in the midst of my disobedience, God covered me.
- On several occasions, Gandhi believed in nonviolent civil disobedience.
- That the highest form of civil disobedience is to reject an unlawful order, and you may be asked to do so.
- And so I was asked to accompany these civil disobedience.
- And I just went very in this mode of civil disobedience.
- So just from a, a a little seeing her naked from lust, from one act of disobedience, he went from just lusting to murdering.
- This is organize civil disobedience and you are either participating in it or you're not.
- Aaron Schwartz, why was he a special human being in this ilk of what we're talking about now, civil disobedience?
Examples
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Each month, North American supervisors fired or suspended numerous workers for disobedience, insolence, and fighting.
Academic text (1996) -
If you think that recklessness and disobedience... can get you expelled... think again.
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It's necessary to maintain a state of disobedience against everything.
Academic text (2015) -
I have had to send someone down because of your disobedience.
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Please do not punish him for my disobedience.
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Why must Israel repeat her cycles of disobedience, generation after generation?
Fiction book (2001) -
Here, the message seems to be that disobedience leads to chaos and tragedy for all.
Academic text (1994) -
What angers me is your deliberate disobedience of my instructions
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If I continue this pattern of disobedience, I will subsequently become a juvenile delinquent.
Fiction book (1990) -
You’ve acted in direct disobedience, Mother.
Synonyms
418
4.1
Breaking a law, rule, agreement, or someone's rights
76
5.3
Open refusal to obey people in charge or rules
60
4.2
When people refuse to obey authority or rules
38
8.5
Refusing to obey orders or respect a person in charge
29
5.6
Refusing to follow some laws as a peaceful protest against unfair government actions
15
7.5
Showing disrespect to a judge or refusing to obey a court order that can be punished
7
7.7
Failure to follow a rule, order, or request
4
8.9
An action that breaks a law or rule
3
3.8
An action that does not follow the law
3
6.7
A strong wish not to follow rules or authority
1
8.2
A disagreement with a government or its rules
1
8.6
Not following a rule, instruction, or prescribed medicine
1
5.4
Refusing to work with or help others as a form of protest
1
7.2
A tendency to be difficult to control and to disobey rules
The failure to obey a rule or law
Not following a law, rule, or custom
Refusing to obey authority, especially a court order
Not following usual rules or accepted practices
Antonyms
Compounds
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5.6
Refusing to follow some laws as a peaceful protest against unfair government actions
How Disobedient
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word disobedience comes from the prefix dis- 'not' and the word obey 'to follow orders'. So, disobedience means 'refusing or failing to follow rules or orders'.