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disobedience
[ dis-uh-bee-dee-uhns ]
noun
- lack of obedience or refusal to comply; disregard or transgression.
disobedience
/ ˌdɪsəˈbiːdɪəns /
noun
- lack of obedience
Word History and Origins
Origin of disobedience1
Example Sentences
Yes, the drinking and disobedience had gone too far and I needed an intervention.
When top leaders themselves disagree with each other on policy priorities, subordinates gain more leeway to exercise strategic disobedience or “buck-passing” – shirking their responsibilities in pollution control.
While arrests have increased as protesters have sought to use civil disobedience to make a point, the arrests often are planned and choreographed.
Beyond protests and civil disobedience, we are lobbying political leaders for climate action.
They’re engaging in their own version of civil disobedience — showing that they’re the thin blue line and that without them there will be chaos.
Saint Louis City police also spent $325,000 upgrading helmets, sticks and other civil disobedience equipment.
Visitors like Sun have never seen civil disobedience practiced in real life.
Shoppers from Mainland China arrived in droves, and gained front row seats to civil disobedience in action.
He laid the blame firmly on meddling by foreign powers sowing civil disobedience.
But all Americans practice libertarian civil disobedience already, on their IRS forms.
He stared at his men, astonished and impatient at this strange disobedience.
His disobedience is not as if that requirement were inconsistent with his natural powers, but as opposed by their tendency.
From the stories of Jonah and King Saul she brought forth some excellent lessons on disobedience.
Their resistance consisted of disobedience of the orders of the Government, even to the extent of suffering death at their hands.
A strong motive might induce her to disobey, but the disobedience in that case would be open.
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