insubmissive
Example Sentences
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From the point of view of the European, an American is nomad in relation to place, disattached in relation to time, lonely in relation to society, and insubmissive to circumstance, destiny, or God.
From Time Magazine Archive
"It is the most simple thing, for your entire character is described in these four words: venal, ferocious, frivolous and insubmissive!"
From The Son of Clemenceau by Alexandre Dumas fils
It was hard for her to find words that would not seem too positive, too insubmissive.
From A Life's Morning by George Gissing
Would this insubmissive spirit have passed out of her writings, as it passed, for instance, out of those of George Sand?
From Some Diversions of a Man of Letters by Edmund Gosse
We find people with feverish spirits—unhappy, discontented, fretted, worried, perhaps insubmissive and rebellious.
From Making the Most of Life by J. R. (James Russell) Miller
