Thesaurus / insubordination
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For those who escaped the madness earlier, either through layoffs or being fired for insubordination, it’s a troubling development.
THE DOWNLOAD: TWITTER MAY ONLY LAST WEEKS, AND META’S UNFORCED AI ERRORRHIANNON WILLIAMSNOVEMBER 18, 2022MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEWOne former employee, who claimed to be fired for insubordination after criticizing a strategy by one of Silbermann’s staff, told CNBC there was an extremely passive-aggressive climate.
PINTEREST AND THE SUBTLE POISON OF SEXISM AND RACISM IN SILICON VALLEYJANICE MINMARCH 22, 2021TIMEExemplary punishment is to be visited upon me for "precocious godlessness, dangerous tendencies, and insubordination."
PRISON MEMOIRS OF AN ANARCHISTALEXANDER BERKMANEvil and insubordination were more easily kept under than Norman had expected, when he first made up his mind to the struggle.
THE DAISY CHAINCHARLOTTE YONGEMrs Pike cast a withering glance at Digby; such a piece of insubordination had not been met with for a long time to her authority.
DIGBY HEATHCOTEW.H.G. KINGSTONIt is the only instance I know of where insubordination saved any army from a surprise attack, and possibly from defeat.
A VIRGINIA SCOUTHUGH PENDEXTERThey reckoned him their ablest general, though his insubordination and self-seeking rendered the loss of him an actual gain.
THE POLITICAL HISTORY OF ENGLAND - VOL. X.WILLIAM HUNTBlackford had, as a matter of fact, been threatened with expulsion lately for insubordination.
A HOOSIER CHRONICLEMEREDITH NICHOLSONRoman vileness and baseness disgusted Augustine even more than Punic insubordination.
GREAT MEN AND FAMOUS WOMEN. VOL. 3 OF 8VARIOUSYou are presuming to speak of an act of insubordination committed by a military officer under civilian command.
LORD ORMONT AND HIS AMINTA, COMPLETEGEORGE MEREDITHWORDS RELATED TO INSUBORDINATION
- affront
- audacity
- back talk
- big talk
- boldness
- bravado
- brazenness
- call
- cartel
- challenge
- command
- confrontation
- contempt
- contrariness
- contumacy
- dare
- defy
- disorderliness
- effrontery
- enjoinder
- factiousness
- fractiousness
- gas
- guts
- hot air
- impudence
- impugnment
- indocility
- insolence
- insubordination
- insurgence
- insurgency
- intractableness
- lip
- muster
- obstinacy
- obstinateness
- obstreperousness
- opposition
- order
- perversity
- provocation
- rebellion
- rebelliousness
- recalcitrance
- recalcitrancy
- refractoriness
- revolt
- sass
- spite
- stump
- summons
- temerity
- throwing of the gauntlet
- uncontrollability
- uncontrollableness
- ungovernableness
- unmanageability
- untowardness
- wildness
- affront
- audacity
- back talk
- big talk
- boldness
- bravado
- brazenness
- call
- cartel
- challenge
- command
- confrontation
- contempt
- contrariness
- contumacy
- dare
- defy
- disorderliness
- effrontery
- enjoinder
- factiousness
- fractiousness
- gas
- guts
- hot air
- impudence
- impugnment
- indocility
- insolence
- insubordination
- insurgence
- insurgency
- intractability
- lip
- muster
- obstinacy
- obstinateness
- obstreperousness
- opposition
- order
- perversity
- provocation
- rebellion
- rebelliousness
- recalcitrance
- recalcitrancy
- refractoriness
- revolt
- sass
- spite
- stump
- summons
- temerity
- throwing of the gauntlet
- uncontrollability
- uncontrollableness
- ungovernableness
- unmanageability
- untowardness
- wildness
- bohemianism
- breach
- contumaciousness
- denial
- disaffection
- disagreement
- disapprobation
- disapproval
- discordance
- disobedience
- dissent
- eccentricity
- exception
- heresy
- heterodoxy
- iconoclasm
- insubordination
- lawlessness
- mutinousness
- negation
- nonacceptance
- nonagreement
- noncompliance
- nonconsent
- objection
- opposition
- originality
- recalcitrance
- recusance
- recusancy
- rejection
- strangeness
- transgressiveness
- unconventionality
- uniqueness
- unorthodoxy
- unruliness
- veto
- violation
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