insubordinate

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[ UK /ˌɪnsəbˈɔːdɪnət/ ]
[ US /ˌɪnsəˈbɔɹdəˌneɪt, ˌɪnsəˈbɔɹdənət/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. not submissive to authority
    insubordinate boys
    a history of insubordinate behavior
  2. disposed to or engaged in defiance of established authority
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How To Use insubordinate In A Sentence

  • What shook me most, however, was the look in the men's faces, disgruntled and insubordinate looks.
  • In the Neapolitan and Sicilian provinces, parishes were scattered, bishoprics penniless, and priests insubordinate: more than half the ecclesiastics convicted of felonies in 1874 served the cross in the Mezzogiorno.
  • Some physicians may have limited patience with staff members they view as insubordinate or who do not understand their routine.
  • It would seem that even highly staffed and secure environments have been unable to deal with her insubordinate, aggressive and threatening behaviour.
  • The issue is, was he insubordinate to his chain of command?
  • And it's an enemy because it is insubordinate and hostile to God.
  • I must now agree that neither I nor the Bank require the services of an insubordinate, conceited egoist. THE GWEN JOHN SCULPTURE
  • These mercenaries were, of course, a fierce and rapacious soldiery, and having an idle tale current among themselves, that a lanzknecht was refused admittance into heaven on account of his vices, and into hell on the score of his tumultuous, mutinous, and insubordinate disposition, they manfully acted as if they neither sought the one nor eschewed the other. Quentin Durward
  • According to reports, both employees were being "insubordinate" and their firing coincided with the arrival of some "bouncer types" on the Infinity Ward campus. ShoutWire.com
  • Vandalism is a cowardly and insubordinate act.
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