Disobedience
Nouns
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disobedience, insubordination, contumacy
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infraction, infringement
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violation, noncompliance
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nonobservance etc. Nonobservance. revolt, rebellion, mutiny, outbreak, rising, uprising, insurrection
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riot, tumult etc. (disorder) [Absence, or want of Order, etc.] Disorder
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strike etc. (resistance) Resistance
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barring out
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defiance etc. Defiance. mutinousness etc. adj.
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mutineering
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sedition, treason
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high treason, petty treason, misprision of treason
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violation of law etc. [Absence or violation of law.] Illegality
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defection, secession. insurgent, mutineer, rebel, revolter, revolutionary, rioter, traitor, quisling, carbonaro, red republican, bonnet rouge, communist, Fenian, frondeur
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seceder, secessionist, runagate, renegade, brawler, anarchist, demagogue
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Spartacus, Masaniello, Wat Tyler, Jack Cade
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ringleader.
Verbs
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disobey, violate, infringe
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shirk
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set at defiance etc. (defy) Defiance
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set authority at naught, run riot, fly in the face of
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take the law into one's own hands
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kick over the traces. turn restive, run restive
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champ the bit
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strike etc. (resist) Resistance
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rise, rise in arms
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secede
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mutiny, rebel.
Adjectives
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disobedient
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uncomplying, uncompliant
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unsubmissive, unruly, ungovernable
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breachy, insubordinate, impatient of control, incorrigible
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restiff, restive
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refractory, contumacious, recusant etc. (refuse) Refusal
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recalcitrant
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resisting etc. Resistance
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lawless, mutinous, seditions, insurgent, riotous. unobeyed
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unbidden.
Phrases
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unthread the rude eye of rebellion" [King John].