disobedient
Example Sentences
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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
Like elsewhere in Hong Kong, the campus seemed to have been scrubbed of its disobedient past.
From BBC • Nov. 30, 2024
Noem reported that the puppy was disobedient and out “having the time of her life” during a pheasant hunting trip and that the animal later attacked and killed a neighbor's chickens.
From Salon • Apr. 26, 2024
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
But I’d recently turned into a cranky, disobedient girl, and so, with my dinner hardly touched, I ran to my room and slammed the door.
From "Courage to Soar" by Simone Biles
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Power Prefix: dis-
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