disobedient
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“I promise to continue to be disobedient so you can belong to a world in all your complete wildness as a young woman.”
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 22, 2026
Anna's mother said it took many months for her to realise her daughter wasn't just being disobedient.
From BBC • Sep. 6, 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
He did not want a rich daughter-in-law lest she be haughty and disobedient and cry for this and that of food and clothes and turn aside his son’s heart from his parents.
From "The Good Earth" by Pearl S. Buck
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Power Prefix: dis-
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