disobedient

Example Sentences

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She plays the leader of a tough girl gang who was imprisoned in one of the city’s amateur rehabilitation centers where Somali parents, especially expatriate families, often send disobedient children.

From Washington Post

Such a summoning is most feared by AI alarmists, at present, because the spirit might be disobedient, destructive, a rampaging Skynet bent on our extermination.

From Seattle Times

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