be insubordinate

Example Sentences

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“I was getting to a point where I was going to have to tell my management — you know, be insubordinate — because I couldn’t rush through that fast.”

From Seattle Times • Feb. 21, 2024

But just because these White House kids have the right to be anonymous doesn’t mean they are entitled to be insubordinate.

From Washington Times • Dec. 7, 2023

Ultimately, of course, the president enjoys a great deal of power, and no staff person can be insubordinate.

From Washington Post • Nov. 25, 2019

There are no known photographs of the 5ft 3in teenager from the north London suburbs, described by his superiors as "clean, sober and intelligent" but "inclined to be insubordinate".

From BBC • Aug. 3, 2014

Here as late as 1777 appears the tendency of the militia to be insubordinate.

From Colonel John Brown, of Pittsfield, Massachusetts, the Brave Accuser of Benedict Arnold by Howe, Archibald Murray