disobedient
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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 • Nov. 14, 2025
“Vieux Carré,” Williams’ somewhat louche 1977 memory play often unfairly consigned to the detention table with the playwright’s other disobedient late works, thrived in the Wooster Group’s weirdo company.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 9, 2023
Some of the school's aides are assigned to one of two "crisis teams" of four employees each that respond to classrooms and can remove students who are upset, disobedient or aggressive.
From Salon • Dec. 20, 2022
He instead ordered the Navy, under threat of sanction, to keep this disobedient officer in charge of a $1.8 billion warship.
From Slate • Mar. 4, 2022
Mama and Baba have enough to worry about without me acting like a disobedient daughter.
From "A Place at the Table" by Saadia Faruqi and Laura Shovan
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