Thesaurus / disobedient
EXAMPLE SENTENCES FROM THE WEB
Now, listen to me, I shall punish you very severely if you act in this disobedient way again.'
THE YOUNG STEP-MOTHERCHARLOTTE M. YONGE
They did n't respond to me somehow, and when they were out of my sight they were ugly and disobedient.
HOMESPUN TALESKATE DOUGLAS WIGGIN
Do drop it if you do not wish to drive me mad or make me disobedient.
SHOULDER-STRAPSHENRY MORFORD
Hadst thou the impudence to aspire at being a husband with that stubborn and disobedient temper?
LOVE FOR LOVEWILLIAM CONGREVE
It is true that Ibls was disobedient, but then he belonged not to the angelic order but to that of the jinn.
THE FAITH OF ISLAMEDWARD SELL
They witnessed a signal instance of his ancient method of dealing with his disobedient children.
BIBLE ROMANCESGEORGE W. FOOTE
I suppose you are aware that you have been a very wicked, deceitful, disobedient boy?
LITTLE GRANDFATHERSOPHIE MAY
She had been disobedient and audacious beyond his wildest conception, even of her.
THE CAMP FIRE GIRLS IN THE OUTSIDE WORLDMARGARET VANDERCOOK
The one is guilt, the other sin: the heart is at enmity, and the life is disobedient.
THE PARABLES OF OUR LORDWILLIAM ARNOT
How can they imagine you sincere when they see you disobedient?
IMAGINARY CONVERSATIONS AND POEMSWALTER SAVAGE LANDOR
WORDS RELATED TO DISOBEDIENT
- aberrant
- arbitrary
- balky
- capricious
- changeable
- contumacious
- cross-grained
- delinquent
- disobedient
- disorderly
- errant
- erratic
- fickle
- flighty
- fractious
- froward
- headstrong
- immoral
- inconstant
- incorrigible
- insubordinate
- intractable
- mulish
- obdurate
- obstinate
- ornery
- perverse
- rebellious
- recalcitrant
- refractory
- restive
- self-indulgent
- self-willed
- stubborn
- uncompliant
- undependable
- ungovernable
- unpredictable
- unruly
- unstable
- variable
- whimsical
- willful
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