disobedience
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
Afterwards, Gandhi presided over waves of civil disobedience protests, encouraging supporters of the Indian National Congress to manufacture contraband salt, boycott foreign goods, and face down phalanxes of lathi-wielding policemen.
From BBC
As the Manual for Courts-Martial puts it, disobedience is “at the peril of the subordinate.”
Pearson and Jones, 27, did not deny that their protest had violated the legislature’s rules of decorum, but Pearson described it as a “peaceful act of civil disobedience” in a New York Times column Wednesday.
From Washington Post
They all felt that design practice was an affair for disobedience.
From New York Times
They point out Xi faced his own protests at the end of last year, in a rare show of civil disobedience over COVID-19 restrictions.
From Reuters
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
