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Fenner says he saw a 12-year-old boy isolated from his parents for weeks because he was being “rebellious.”

But now everything was a good pretext to vent the rebellious mood.

“In high school, I was considered the most rebellious girl,” Perl says.

In the first chapter, rebellious Holly Sykes runs away from home and headlong into the melancholy perils of first love.

So instead of having rebellious teens, I had my rebellious 20s.

Man's enthusiasm in praise of a fellow mortal, is soon damped by the original sin of his nature—rebellious pride!

That thou shouldst make the kingdom to be divided, and out of Ephraim a rebellious kingdom to rule.

Having reduced Punch to a second agony of tears Harry departed upstairs with the news that Punch was still rebellious.

The rebellious brown hair was almost in the shade of my own dashing hat-brim.

As a natural consequence her repressed but still rebellious passions diffused their poison throughout her nature.

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On this page you'll find 76 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to rebellious, such as: alienated, disaffected, fractious, recalcitrant, restless, and turbulent.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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