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How to pronounce disobedient in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms unruly
Derivation disobedience, disobey
Type Words
Derivation disobedience, disobey


disobedient children.

Examples of disobedient

disobedient
Smith said that no human parent would torture his children for being disobedient.
From the tennessean.com
Disobedient computers, frightened gold farmers and money gone seriously ethereal.
From the newscientist.com
He is, after all, an unapologetic bibliophile, a dreamer and a civil disobedient.
From the stltoday.com
Henry failed to create a proper bureaucracy to replace his disobedient vassals.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Danaus was angry with his disobedient daughter and threw her to the Argive courts.
From the en.wikipedia.org
The films were very hit and miss, but they were always disobedient and challenging.
From the independent.co.uk
In other words, disobedient children are more likely to elicit disciplinary action.
From the healthland.time.com
She said her grandson has been disobedient and difficult since about age 14.
From the omaha.com
Their disobedient detour might fairly be said to have changed the course of history.
From the time.com
More examples
  • Not obeying or complying with commands of those in authority; "disobedient children"
  • Unwilling to submit to authority; "unruly teenagers"
  • (disobediently) in a disobedient manner; "he went ahead disobediently and did what his supervisor had warned him not to do"
  • (disobedience) the failure to obey
  • 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. ...
  • Not obedient
  • (Disobedience) When a horse does not do or willfully avoids doing what it is asked of it.
  • (Disobedience) (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.
  • (Disobedience) When a horse, in jumping event, does not do what they are supposed to do. These include a horse's refusal, run-out, resistance, turning in a circle or deviating from the course. See individual terms for definitions.