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

For example, diaries about personal lives, new puppies, disobedient grandchildren.

From Slate • Apr. 11, 2024

From March onward, “instead of dividing into small groups and blocking roads, we will hold disobedient gatherings with many people. And where we cannot be ignored,” the group said in a statement.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 29, 2024

“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

If we got on her nerves or if we were disobedient, she could always send us back to Stamps.

From "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou