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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | misbehavior; noncompliance with rules |
| Synonyms: | defiance, dereliction, disregard, indiscipline, infraction, infringement, insubmission, insubordination, insurgence, intractableness, mutiny, neglect, nonobservance, perversity, rebellion, recalcitrance, refractoriness, revolt, revolution, riot, sabotage, sedition, strike, stubbornness, transgression, unruliness, violation, waywardness |
| Antonyms: | behavior, obedience, observance, submission |
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| Concept: | Disobedience. |
| Synonyms: |
-nouns
disobedience, insubordination, contumacy; infraction, infringement; violation, noncompliance; nonobservance., revolt, rebellion, mutiny, outbreak, rising, uprising, insurrection, emeute; riot, tumult (disorder); strike (resistance); barring out; defiance., mutinousness; mutineering; sedition, treason; high treason, petty treason, misprision of treason; premunire; lese majeste; violation of law; defection, secession., insurgent, mutineer, rebel, revolter, rioter, traitor, carbonaro, sansculottes, red republican, bonnet rouge, communist, Fenian, frondeur; seceder, runagate, brawler, anarchist, demagogue; Spartacus, Masaniello, Wat Tyler, Jack Cade; ringleader.
-verbs
disobey, violate, infringe; shirk; set at defiance (defy); set authority at naught, run riot, fly in the face of; take the law into one's own hands; kick over the traces., turn restive, run restive; champ the bit; strike (resist); rise, rise in arms; secede; mutiny, rebel.
-adjectives
disobedient; uncomplying, uncompliant; unsubmissive, unruly, ungovernable; breachy, insubordinate, impatient of control; restiff, restive; refractory, contumacious, recusant (refuse); recalcitrant; resisting; lawless, mutinous, seditions, insurgent, riotous., unobeyed; unbidden.
-phrases
seditiosissimus quisque ignavus [Tacitus]; "unthread the rude eye of rebellion" [King John].
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| Antonyms: | obedience |
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| Main Entry: | breach |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | violation of a law |
| Synonyms: | barratry, contravention, delinquency, dereliction, disobedience, disregard, infraction, infringement, neglect, noncompliance, nonobservance, offense, transgression, trespass, violation |
| Notes: | breach is an infraction, gap, or break; breech is the rear or lower portion of things |
| Antonyms: | upholding |
| Main Entry: | monkey business |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | shenanigans |
| Synonyms: | absurdity, absurdness, antics, buffoonery, carrying-on, clowning around, craziness, disobedience, foolery, foolishness, hanky-panky, high jinks, hokey-pokey, horse feathers, horseplay, inanity, insanity, irresponsibility, ludicrousness, lunacy, misbehavior, mischief, mischief-making, monkeyshine, nonsense, poppycock, prank, silliness, stupidity, tommyrot |
| Main Entry: | mutiny |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | defiance, resistance |
| Synonyms: | disobedience, insubordination, insurrection, refusal to obey, revolt, revolution, riot, rising, strike, uprising |
| Antonyms: | obedience, subservience |
| Main Entry: | nonconformity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | belief, behavior different from most |
| Synonyms: | bohemianism, breach, contumaciousness, denial, disaffection, disagreement, disapprobation, disapproval, discordance, disobedience, dissent, eccentricity, exception, heresy, heterodoxy, iconoclasm, insubordination, lawlessness, mutinousness, negation, nonacceptance, nonagreement, noncompliance, nonconsent, objection, opposition, originality, recalcitrance, recusance, recusancy, rejection, strangeness, transgressiveness, unconventionality, uniqueness, unorthodoxy, unruliness, veto, violation |
| Antonyms: | compliance, conformity, obedience, orthodoxy |
| Main Entry: | rebellion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | disobedience; revolt |
| Synonyms: | apostasy, defiance, disobedience, dissent, heresy, insubordination, insurgence, insurgency, insurrection, nonconformity, revolution, rising, schism, uprising |
| Notes: | rebellion is open resistance to a government or authority; revolution is a rebellion that succeeds in overthrowing the government and establishing a new one |
| Antonyms: | calm, harmony, peace |
| Main Entry: | sedition |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | rebellion |
| Synonyms: | agitation, defiance, disobedience, dissent, insubordination, insurgence, insurgency, insurrection, mutiny, revolt, revolution, treason, uprising |
| Main Entry: | sin |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | illegal or immoral action |
| Synonyms: | anger, covetousness, crime, damnation, debt, deficiency, demerit, disobedience, envy, error, evil, evil-doing, fault, gluttony, guilt, immorality, imperfection, iniquity, lust, misdeed, offense, peccability, peccadillo, peccancy, pride, shortcoming, sinfulness, sloth, tort, transgression, trespass, ungodliness, unrighteousness, veniality, vice, violation, wickedness, wrong, wrongdoing, wrongness |
| Antonyms: | behavior, goodness, morality |
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