insubordinate

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Insubordinate and often insufferable, he is assigned to recover a kidnaped British scientist held by criminals who contribute to the nation's "brain drain" by snatching and selling top scientific talent to foreign powers.

From Time Magazine Archive

Insubordinate to France it certainly is, and intemperate; turgid, too, as any youth of twenty could well make it.

From The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. I. (of IV.) by Sloane, William Milligan

He shook his head mischievously and whispered "Insubordinate."

From Miss Lou by Roe, Edward Payson

"Insubordinate children who play off from school in the morning must work in the afternoon," Karl said at luncheon, and they went to their work that afternoon with freshened spirit.

From The Glory of the Conquered The Story of a Great Love by Glaspell, Susan

Insubordinate Spaniards have been punished; “on New Year's day, I had the entire city council arrested for an act of disobedience to me.”

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 10 of 55 1597-1599 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century by Robertson, James Alexander