Antonym: obedient. Similar words: obediently, audience, ingredient, science, patience, sapience, experience, experienced. Meaning: [‚dɪsə'biːdjəns] 
n. 1. the failure to obey 2. the trait of being unwilling to obey.
n. 1. the failure to obey 2. the trait of being unwilling to obey. 
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1. Soldiers used to be flogged for disobedience.
2. I shall overlook your disobedience this time.
3. He called for a campaign of civil disobedience if the president did not honour the election results.
4. The opposition threatened a campaign of civil disobedience.
5. Father slapped the boy on the face for disobedience.
6. His behaviour was seen as another act of disobedience.
7. He was punished for his disobedience.
8. The father harshly corrected his child for disobedience.
9. The punishment for disobedience was the lash.
10. Civil disobedience, violent or non-violent, is intentional law breaking.
11. The headmaster caned the boys for disobedience.
12. We would not endorse civil disobedience.
13. This was true civil disobedience rather than mere non-co-operation.
14. Do we intend to commit civil disobedience?
15. His parents punished him for disobedience.
16. Run, quelling any thought of disobedience.
17. Non-cooperation and civil disobedience, as Gandhi understands them, can not be construed as a coercive threat in this sense.
18. That there are risks associated with civil disobedience no one would deny, and among them is the risk of anarchy.
19. In the 1960s, King and others used civil disobedience to fight institutional segregation in the South.
20. Six days afterwards I set out in direct disobedience of orders to rejoin my regiment.
21. The first blow to this came with the disobedience of pride.sentence dictionary
22. In the parable of Jonah, the prophet's disobedience stirs up the deep to endanger the lives of his fellow seafarers.
23. She struggled to control her anger at her son's disobedience.
24. Gandhi and Martin Luther King both led campaigns of civil disobedience to try to persuade the authorities to change their policies.
25. Order and group conformity through bureaucratic systematization became the rule of the day; disobedience and open rebellion the rare exception.
26. If he fasted, he was released from jail; if he attempted civil disobedience, he was back in again.
27. She no longer linked the flight with her own act of disobedience over the spinach, ably abetted by Aunt Tossie.
28. The Congress instructed its members and friends to withdraw from the legislatures, and sanctioned civil disobedience and nonpayment of taxes.
29. He was prepared to cancel his plans for civil disobedience and wanted to discuss the matter with the Viceroy.
30. It had to be a battle in which his side would fight with a special kind of weapon: civil disobedience.
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