disobedient
Americanadjective
adjective
Other Word Forms
- disobediently adverb
Etymology
Origin of disobedient
1400–50; late Middle English < Old French desobedient, equivalent to des- dis- 1 + obedient obedient
Example Sentences
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That hospital – once the home of a Scottish shipping magnate – would be her home for a month in April 1958, after a judge ordered the then-16-year-old to undergo treatment for "disobedient" behaviour.
From BBC
I can't say that my own stubborn, disobedient terrier provides me with any of the benefits that the first domesticated wolves bestowed on our ancestors.
From BBC
Like elsewhere in Hong Kong, the campus seemed to have been scrubbed of its disobedient past.
From BBC
Noem reported that the puppy was disobedient and out “having the time of her life” during a pheasant hunting trip and that the animal later attacked and killed a neighbor's chickens.
From Salon
“It’s so moving at moments. You see these two women trying to be free and full and disobedient.”
From Los Angeles Times
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