rebelliously

Example Sentences

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Proudly and rebelliously, I accused my parents’ generation—and Mama in particular—of failing to live up to the utopian promises that should have handed me a future that I could find worthy and comfortable.

From The New Yorker • Jun. 5, 2019

Shawn points, but I’m still rebelliously looking around, scoping, until I spot the La-Z-Boy of tree trunks.

From Washington Post • Nov. 16, 2016

This was the Replacements at the peak of their powers, rebelliously thwarting expectations, simultaneously satirizing the ironic over-seriousness of "SNL" and mocking the second-rate-ness of their own name.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 10, 2016

Siegfried is too polite to try combating von Rothbart, so instead he leaves this task to the swan-maidens, who — the female of the species is evidently deadlier here — rebelliously polish him off.

From New York Times • Mar. 16, 2015

Just as rebelliously, Angela kept watching the plane parked at 2B, instead of bending her head back down to concentrate on her computer.

From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix