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[ UK /ɹɪbˈɛlɪəs/ ]
[ US /ɹəˈbɛɫjəs, ɹɪˈbɛɫjəs/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. resisting control or authority
    temperamentally rebellious
    a rebellious crew
  2. participating in organized resistance to a constituted government
    the rebelling confederacy
  3. discontented as toward authority

How To Use rebellious In A Sentence

  • Later she took the impenitent young 'duffer' a tea cunningly designed to appeal to his rebellious heart, and spread it neatly on the big dimity-covered box in his bedroom; but Dick was implacable. The Gold-Stealers A Story of Waddy
  • He had fallen for her rebellious daring personality the moment they met.
  • At the same time, the province of Songkhla, which had been rebellious since 1678, was placed under French control.
  • It made her bitter and resentful towards him, and all the more rebellious.
  • The war booty was shared between a rebellious prince of Toungio and the king of Arakan.
  • The film's dialogue is minimal and often earthy but it accurately captures the rebellious mood of the youth.
  • Who could say that youth was rebellious. Bomber
  • And you had the duct tape right there in your hand and coulda wrapped that rebellious cotter pin until it suffocated. Monday, Jan. 26 – The Bleat.
  • Everything about the picture was perfect; even down to his few rebellious strands of hair by his neck.
  • Second, mass incarceration serves to keep under near total control rebellious and potentially insurrectionary populations.
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