(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.
Rebellious
Definition:
(a.) Engaged in rebellion; disposed to rebel; of the nature of rebels or of rebellion; resisting government or lawful authority by force.
Example Sentences:
(1) That is what needs to happen for this company, which started out as a rebellious presence in the business, determined to get credit for its creative visionaries.
(2) They are not rebellious reckless youth, but 50,000 of the cleverest and most hardworking adults of their generation; the cream of their school science classes, serious-minded grown-ups in their 20s and 30s.
(3) She does talk openly and movingly about Barbara, though, whose rebelliousness became so troublesome for her parents that she was placed in various institutions during her teens.
(4) For the rebellious risk taker, a newspaper article with a state agency source caused higher levels of concern and information seeking about the risk than a newspaper article with the Surgeon General as the source.
(5) But his 12-seat majority is slender: it could be overturned by a single surge of rebellious fury, or a big backbench sulk.
(6) By her own account, she became a rebellious teenager.
(7) They became as inextricably part of his identity as his rebelliousness, morbidity and homosexuality, all of which made up his outward and possibly inward self-image as the "outsider on the inside" that was an integral part of his work.
(8) The “Rebellious Scots to crush” bit should go down well as he seeks to rebuild Labour there.
(9) In recent weeks, repeated efforts had been made to pare down and modify the legislation to placate the rebellious conservatives in the party.
(10) Ronald “ count me in as a rebel ” Reagan won the presidency in 1980, but his administration actually defused the movement with a plan to sell the land to private owners – owners who would not share grazing rights with the rebellious ranchers.
(11) Among the 14 explanatory variables in the multivariate logistic analysis, family members' and friends' smoking, the place of residence, strenuousness of leisure-time physical activities, number of friends, rebelliousness, intelligence test score, and general pessimism were most strongly associated with the likelihood of being a current smoker.
(12) The inference of sarcasm from the refreshingly rebellious wife of the Speaker could only be drawn in the full knowledge that Britons run on such humour like midwesterns do corn oil.
(13) But while graffiti artists have benefited from the radical chic factor, the beau monde never hired street vendors to give them some rebellious cool.
(14) In 1995, when Williams walked out on his boyband, he bounded into Liam's rock'n'roll life with ease – because although he had once writhed around in jelly , he also had a rebellious side with a penchant for Adidas jackets, booze, birds and fags.
(15) The unpopular list (at least within his own party), which sought to impose women and ethnic minority candidates on safe or winnable seats, was quietly dropped in 2012, amid signs, some said, that too many A-listers showed uncomfortable rebellious streaks.
(16) This follows warnings from the Ukrainian military that it is bracing for a rebel attack on the port city of Mariupol – the largest city still under government control in the two rebellious eastern provinces.
(17) He likes conscious, rebellious hip-hop (Kendrick Lamar, Run the Jewels, Kanye West’s Yeezus) but, unlike some old Public Enemy fans, doesn’t expect every rapper to be political.
(18) The US fought two fierce and costly battles in Falluja in 2004 and lost almost 200 soldiers without pacifying the rebellious city.
(19) He was one of several oligarchs parachuted in to take over the leadership of the country's rebellious provinces, at the request of the new government in Kiev.
(20) The video said the blasts were in response to security force strikes on rebellious towns that have shared in the fight against Assad.