insubordination
- the quality or condition of being insubordinate, or of being disobedient to authority; defiance: The employee was fired for insubordination.
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Contemporary Examples
Inspections, harsh penalties for misconduct, and consequences for insubordination were the norm.
Will These Men Ever Come Home? The Search for Missing WWII Pilots in “Vanished”Jordan Michael Smith
November 14, 2013
That kind of insubordination, he said, “would have extreme negative impacts on U.S. and NATO troops in the field.”
Now one might explain away the insubordination as standard trash talk among stressed-out warriors.
From day one, the press will be searching for signs of acrimony or insubordination.
Historical Examples
Discontent and insubordination now prevailed amongst the rebels.
Gomez AriasJoaqun Telesforo de Trueba y Coso
Two days earlier he would not have dreamed of such a piece of insubordination.
Two ArrowsWilliam O. Stoddard
The inference that there had been insubordination is inevitable.
War from the InsideFrederick L. (Frederick Lyman) Hitchcock
Heaven knew what amount of insubordination might spring out of it!
The Daltons, Volume I (of II)Charles James Lever
"You are simply adding to your insubordination, sir," he says, coldly.
A War-Time WooingCharles King
Word Origin and History for insubordination
n.
1790, from in- (1) "not, opposite of" + subordination. Perhaps on model of French insubordination (1788).
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