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

Some of the school's aides are assigned to one of two "crisis teams" of four employees each that respond to classrooms and can remove students who are upset, disobedient or aggressive.

From Salon • Dec. 20, 2022

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

Mama and Baba have enough to worry about without me acting like a disobedient daughter.

From "A Place at the Table" by Saadia Faruqi and Laura Shovan