(a.) Willfully disobedient to the summous or prders of a court.
Example Sentences:
(1) Twenty-five minutes later, with the arcane and archaic legalities duly addressed, the final decree porrected and any opposition to the election declared contumacious, the 57-year-old former oil executive was confirmed as the 105th archbishop of Canterbury, in the presence of several senior bishops.
(2) A hypertensive man had a long standing history of contumacious hyperpathia in the right upper extremity, resistant to medical therapy, secondary to a lacunar infarct in the left thalamus.
Insubordinate
Definition:
(a.) Not submitting to authority; disobedient; rebellious; mutinous.
Example Sentences:
(1) Now, after an injury-riddled, somewhat controversial campaign, one that featured selfishness, insubordination and a propensity to speak too much, Bryce Harper seems to be finally allowing his bat to do the talking .
(2) Incensed by this act of insubordination, the Russian authorities turned to Moscow’s roofing community for answers.
(3) The insubordinate, dandyish Lieutenant TE Lawrence (Peter O'Toole) is in the palatial Cairo offices of the Arab Bureau's Mr Dryden (Claude Rains) to discuss secondment with the Bedouin.
(4) Karegeya, 53, was once a close ally of Kagame and served as Rwanda's intelligence chief for 10 years before he was arrested and jailed for 18 months for insubordination and desertion.
(5) The major problems experienced by employment specialists were insubordinate and disruptive behaviors as well as other inappropriate social behaviors displayed at the job site.
(6) According to Hoopes, "flaps are vicarious, mischievous, and frequently insubordinate reconstructive agents.
(7) Liverpudlians sometimes attracted a similar contempt: their once grand, increasingly gaunt city was associated with riots, insubordinate leftwing councillors and unstoppable economic decline.
(8) ‘We have never inspired passion’ In a light-hearted act of insubordination in the opening minutes of his budget, George Osborne prompted wry smiles from Conservative MPs who harbour reservations about the Tories’ “clunky” general election campaign.
(9) He was ultimately sacked for “gross misconduct and insubordination” after he refused to accept the findings of a review panel that investigated his behaviour.
(10) Of course, the bluster of one unnamed general against the newly elected Labour leader is a long way from the reality of tanks on the streets, or even military insubordination against elected leaders.
(11) Simultaneously, thanks to the second world war, Private Ustinov was serving rather insubordinately in the Royal Sussex Regiment.
(12) There were plenty in Washington calling for McChrystal's head, at the very least for his stupidity, let alone the insubordination and contempt with which the general and his aides spoke about senior Obama administration officials.
(13) The pimp's fear that a rival was trying to steal Veronica, or the merest hint of insubordination, prompted vicious beatings.
(14) Since such residual traditional logic remains deep in the bloodstream of the Chinese people, it most certainly played a role in goading party leaders into attempting to bring these two insubordinate “capitalist” markets to heel as quickly as possible to provide proof that they still held the right to rule.
(15) I was accused of insubordination and immaturity when I said I did not feel that my safety was being adequately managed.
(16) Let Helen be promiscuous, impetuous and insubordinate because she wants to be, not because there's anything wrong with her or her childhood.