disobedient

Example Sentences

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

From BBC • Nov. 30, 2024

Murdy also consulted with actor Danny Trejo about El Cucuy, the boogeyman that takes away disobedient children.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 4, 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

It fell, in waves and curls and disobedient frizzy wisps—soft on the inside, coarser on the outside—to just below where her small, strong waist began its curve out towards her hips.

From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy