insubordination

Shotwell, according to the New York Times, also asked staff involved with the letter to stop “flooding” company communication channels and said she would consider ignoring her email to be insubordination.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 11, 2026

He attacked the qualifications of her replacement and told him he wasn’t welcome in a way that could only indicate insubordination.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 9, 2026

Attorney’s Office for operating illegally and took the rare step of throwing a prosecutor out of his courtroom for insubordination, according to a transcript obtained by the New York Times.

From Slate ● Mar. 20, 2026

“The Justice Department will not tolerate the insubordination and apparent misconduct reflected in the approach that you and your office have taken,” he wrote.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 17, 2025

In this secret music, I could tell those tales I was denied, and, there being no text, none could read whether I spake of docility or insubordination.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson

Many of the foreign officers spoke little, if any, English, and mutual jealousies and insubordinations soon manifested themselves in the little band.

From History of Cuba; or, Notes of a Traveller in the Tropics Being a Political, Historical, and Statistical Account of the Island, from its First Discovery to the Present Time by Ballou, Maturin Murray

She saw peeping and smiling at the edge of the door a neighbor's face, that encouraged her insubordinations.

From The Chase of Saint-Castin and Other Stories of the French in the New World by Catherwood, Mary Hartwell

I shall report the whole of your insubordinations in a properly written-out despatch.

From In the King's Name The Cruise of the "Kestrel" by Fenn, George Manville