be insubordinate
Example Sentences
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“I was getting to a point where I was going to have to tell my management — you know, be insubordinate — because I couldn’t rush through that fast.”
From Seattle Times • Feb. 21, 2024
But just because these White House kids have the right to be anonymous doesn’t mean they are entitled to be insubordinate.
From Washington Times • Dec. 7, 2023
Ultimately, of course, the president enjoys a great deal of power, and no staff person can be insubordinate.
From Washington Post • Nov. 25, 2019
There are no known photographs of the 5ft 3in teenager from the north London suburbs, described by his superiors as "clean, sober and intelligent" but "inclined to be insubordinate".
From BBC • Aug. 3, 2014
Thus, as the hours went by—and I was only allowed forty-eight—it was only too plain that lack of courage prevailed, and that everyone was inclined to be insubordinate.
From An Antarctic Mystery by Hoey, Frances Cashel
