disobedient
Example Sentences
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“I promise to continue to be disobedient so you can belong to a world in all your complete wildness as a young woman.”
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 22, 2026
That hospital – once the home of a Scottish shipping magnate – would be her home for a month in April 1958, after a judge ordered the then-16-year-old to undergo treatment for "disobedient" behaviour.
From BBC • Nov. 14, 2025
Noem reported that the puppy was disobedient and out “having the time of her life” during a pheasant hunting trip and that the animal later attacked and killed a neighbor's chickens.
From Salon • Apr. 26, 2024
He instead ordered the Navy, under threat of sanction, to keep this disobedient officer in charge of a $1.8 billion warship.
From Slate • Mar. 4, 2022
They didn’t say I couldn’t go, so I’m not being disobedient.
From "Where the Mountain Meets the Moon" by Grace Lin
Vocabulary lists containing disobedient
Power Prefix: dis-
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