insubordination

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We’re directed to work more efficiently with little direction as to what is allowed and what will be deemed insubordination by paranoid agency leadership teams.

From Slate • Feb. 21, 2025

Truman fired MacArthur for his insubordination, at some political risk.

From Slate • Jul. 18, 2024

In the fall of 2010, the head football coach terminated Sell as an assistant due to Sell’s insubordination and refusal to stop spending time with one of the two other boys who are now suing.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 13, 2023

Eventually he was given a formal charge of insubordination.

From BBC • Dec. 12, 2023

Madam Platt could not countenance this insubordination, but neither could she insist upon service when she could not pay a farthing in wages.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson