to disobey
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3.7
- verb
- /ˌdɪsəˈbeɪ/
:
desobedecer
- She was told not to disobey her parents' wishes, but she felt strongly about her decision.
- disobey orders
- disobey the rules
- disobey the law
And you can find me disobeying the law.
- And you can find me disobeying the law.
- How do you write a protagonist that can't disobey an order?
- One is to just pass laws that forbid certain actions and punish those who disobey.
- And despite substantial price reductions on both of the deals, I decided it's not worth disobeying the other rules we talked about in this video.
- The students who respected her a lot were unable to hold their breaths any longer, but didn't even want to disobey her.
- My stances on that, my anti vax stances, my my incitements to people disobeying COVID rules just being a thorn in their side pretty much.
- Of course, at the same time, you've got a Jack Smith now telling the judge that Donald Trump is disobeying his protective orders.
- So he, he either disobeyed or, or went around his back and did something that was like, no, no bueno.
- When your children start disobeying rules that need to be disobeyed, don't be surprised.
- I don't guarantee nothing will happen, but it's also I was, I wanted to make sure I didn't want to disobey in front of people.
- We can do nothing and observe the process for a little bit longer, or we can do kind of disobeying behaviors.
- We would slip too rapidly off and onward toward the end, which is the only and no storyteller knows or disobeys.
- And so I think, well, the argument is that Trump disobeyed flagrantly disregarded political norms around elections and around the around the courts.
Examples
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But you're asking me to disobey a direct order.
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Remind me why we're disobeying your brother's orders?
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And I knew that I would disobey the Party.
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Why did you disobey me, girls?
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Are you going to disobey me?
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How could one man disobey so many orders that it came to this?
Fiction book (1999) -
You disobeyed orders, you paid the price.
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My orders are to return from here immediately, and I can't disobey those orders.
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You know what happens to a soldier of mine who disobeys an order?
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You disobeyed a direct order and lost a 30 million dollar fighter in the process.
Synonyms
627
4.4
Break a law, rule, agreement, or promise
311
2.2
Act against authority, rules or change
178
3.7
Openly refuse to obey someone or seem to resist a force like time
12
7.9
To openly disobey a rule or law to show you do not respect it
2
8.2
To break a law, rule, or agreement
To break a law, rule, contract, or promise
Antonyms
How Disobedient
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word disobey is made of dis- meaning 'not' and obey meaning 'to listen to or follow orders'. So, to disobey is to 'not listen' or to refuse to follow rules or an order.