rebellious
adjective
defying or resisting some established authority, government, or tradition; insubordinate; inclined to rebel.
unrebellious
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a word derived from
rebellious.
Example Sentences
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He even gets on with his entirely unrebellious daughter and spends social time with her down the pub or up the am-dram.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 2, 2011
In fact, he was a quiet, dutiful, good son -- a not very religious Episcopal acolyte, a student-body president, and in 1969, in Marin County, Calif., a quiet, dutiful, unrebellious teenager.
From Time Magazine Archive
In this newly unrebellious mood, the Democratic caucus readily re-elected its party leaders O'Neill, Wright and Tom Foley, chairman of the caucus.
From Time Magazine Archive
They have subdued the tribes of Hwâi, And brought them to an unrebellious submission.
From The Shih King From the Sacred Books of the East Volume 3 by James Legge
To fling away her secret, to conform, to be unrebellious, uncritical, submissive, became an impatient desire; and the task did not appear so difficult since Miss Dale's arrival.
From The Egoist by George Meredith
