disobedient

Example Sentences

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No, they see this as a tale of disobedient women who need to be punished.

From Salon

She plays the leader of a tough girl gang who was imprisoned in one of the city’s amateur rehabilitation centers where Somali parents, especially expatriate families, often send disobedient children.

From Washington Post

Such a summoning is most feared by AI alarmists, at present, because the spirit might be disobedient, destructive, a rampaging Skynet bent on our extermination.

From Seattle Times

But records detail multiple instances when staff called police because students were being disobedient: spraying water, punching a desk or damaging a filing cabinet, for example.

From Salon

Instead, he creates Pinocchio, a disobedient puppet who yearns to be a boy, runs away and is jailed, almost hanged and, after being transformed into a donkey, nearly skinned.

From New York Times