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disobedience
[ dis-uh-bee-dee-uhns ]
noun
- lack of obedience or refusal to comply; disregard or transgression.
disobedience
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noun
- lack of obedience
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of disobedience1
Example Sentences
He handcuffed himself to a federal building to bring attention to the plight of immigrants in detention, the first of about a dozen times he would be arrested for civil disobedience, Jimenez said.
Youth Demand, which describes itself as a "new youth resistance campaign fighting for an end to genocide", began carrying out acts of civil disobedience last year.
They decided a new, more focused operation was needed, modelled on earlier civil disobedience movements like the Suffragettes, Gandhi's civil disobedience campaigns and the civil rights movement in the US.
What initially began as a civil disobedience campaign soon evolved into a widespread insurgency involving pro-democracy and ethnic rebel groups - which eventually sparked an all-out civil war.
The outright disobedience of federal judges — and calls for impeachment from Trump and his supporters — have inspired rare public statements from Supreme Court justices past and present.
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