disobedient

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

If women resist men, however, they are seen as quarrelsome and disobedient, and no longer trustworthy.

From Salon

Like elsewhere in Hong Kong, the campus seemed to have been scrubbed of its disobedient past.

From BBC

There's a sugar rush in blaming all your problems on women, screaming about how you'd like to inflict violence on them for what Carlson described as being "disobedient."

From Salon