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How to pronounce disobedience in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms noncompliance
Type of rebelliousness, insubordination
Has types contempt, contumacy
Derivation disobedient, disobey
Type Words
Type of intractability, intractableness
Has types mischievousness, naughtiness, badness
Derivation disobedient

Examples of disobedience

disobedience
Is disobedience to traffic laws so popular that it has become accepted practice?
From the sacbee.com
He has freely admitted he disrupted the auction as an act of civil disobedience.
From the sltrib.com
Even now, with all the ISI's changes, none were punished for their disobedience.
From the time.com
Terrified about the consequences of disobedience, she hanged herself that night.
From the npr.org
Often, such art is used as part of demonstrations or acts of civil disobedience.
From the en.wikipedia.org
One hand on his hip became two and cheerful willingness became bold disobedience.
From the timesunion.com
A civil disobedience campaign in Port Said entered its seventh day on Saturday.
From the nzherald.co.nz
This is the key, as I see it, to the proper and timely use of civil disobedience.
From the infowars.com
Looks like Lex is doing a little insurgency or financial disobedience here too.
From the economist.com
More examples
  • The failure to obey
  • The trait of being unwilling to obey
  • (disobedient) not obeying or complying with commands of those in authority; "disobedient children"
  • (disobedient) unwilling to submit to authority; "unruly teenagers"
  • Civil disobedience is the active refusal to obey certain laws, demands, and commands of a government, or of an occupying international power. Civil disobedience is usually, but not always, defined as being nonviolent resistance. ...
  • Refusal to obey
  • A term that covers several types of misbehavior, including deviating from the course, a refusal, run-out, and resistance.
  • (1) the rarest and most courageous of virtues... seldom distinguished from neglect; the laziest and commonest of virtues. (2) the silver lining to the cloud of servitude.
  • When a horse does not do or willfully avoids doing what it is asked of it.