Insubordination
['ɪnsə'bɔrdə'neʃən]
Definition
(n.) The quality of being insubordinate; disobedience to lawful authority.
Typist: Molly
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Disobedience, revolt, insurrection, mutiny, riotousness, sedition.
Typed by Emile
Examples
- He is despotic, and unmerciful to insubordination; he would shoot a fellow down with as little remorse as he would shoot a buck, if he opposed him. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- At last he placed them in arrest, and preferred charges against them of insubordination and disrespect. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- For a teacher to seek her alliance in any crisis of insubordination was equivalent to securing her own expulsion. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Well, well, Miss Sedley was exceedingly alarmed at this act of insubordination. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
Checker: Rupert