disobedient

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But records detail multiple instances when staff called police because students were being disobedient: spraying water, punching a desk or damaging a filing cabinet, for example.

From Salon

Instead, he creates Pinocchio, a disobedient puppet who yearns to be a boy, runs away and is jailed, almost hanged and, after being transformed into a donkey, nearly skinned.

From New York Times

The bill says parents can sue school districts in federal court for violating the law, and it threatens disobedient school districts with the loss of federal, state and local funding for up to three years.

From Washington Post

We believe that our teens are meant to push us away and become defiant, disobedient and disrespectful, but this isn’t true.

From Washington Post

But women who are disobedient and fail to bear children — including because they miscarry — face ostracism, the lawsuit alleges.

From Seattle Times