disobey

Example Sentences

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Navy captain, for participating in a video calling on troops to disobey illegal orders.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 12, 2026

“You can’t put on the screen that it’s right for a young girl to disobey her father,” Nava recalled Quintanilla saying.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 13, 2025

The duty to disobey manifestly illegal orders is a cornerstone of international law, with foundations in Nazi atrocities-related post-World War II trials like Nuremberg.

From Salon • Nov. 25, 2025

It’s easy for anyone to repeat the mantra “you have a duty to disobey unlawful orders”; it’s hard for me, you, and your shipmates to know and decide when and how to do that.

From Slate • Nov. 24, 2025

What was less comprehensible, however, was how Robbie imperiously raised his hand now, as though issuing a command which Cecilia dared not disobey.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan