Disobedience
noun
When you do not follow or break the laws, rules, or orders.
He was arrested for disobedience to the court order.
Often appears as...
- civil disobedience
- disobedience to authority
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Disapproving
noun
When you do not follow what someone, especially a parent or teacher, tells you to do.
His parents were frustrated by his act of disobedience.
Often appears as...
- childish disobedience
- act of disobedience
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Disapproving
noun
When you do not follow or conform to social norms or expected behaviors.
Her disobedience to societal expectations was a form of protest.
Often appears as...
- act of disobedience
- stubborn disobedience
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Neutral
noun
When you do not follow or break the laws, rules, or orders.
He was arrested for disobedience to the court order.
Often appears as...
- civil disobedience
- disobedience to authority
Usage tips
Disapproving
noun
When you do not follow what someone, especially a parent or teacher, tells you to do.
His parents were frustrated by his act of disobedience.
Often appears as...
- childish disobedience
- act of disobedience
Usage tips
Disapproving
noun
When you do not follow or conform to social norms or expected behaviors.
Her disobedience to societal expectations was a form of protest.
Often appears as...
- act of disobedience
- stubborn disobedience
Usage tips
Neutral
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Legal Consequences
Disobedience in a legal context often implies facing punishments like fines or jail.
His disobedience of traffic laws resulted in a hefty fine.
Pro Tip 2/3Intentional Act
Disobedience is a deliberate choice to not comply with rules or orders.
Choosing disobedience, she refused to pay the unfair fines.
Pro Tip 3/3Civil Protest
Civil disobedience is a nonviolent protest against laws deemed unjust.
The activists chose civil disobedience to fight the new policy.
Pro Tip 1/3Legal Consequences
Disobedience in a legal context often implies facing punishments like fines or jail.
His disobedience of traffic laws resulted in a hefty fine.
Pro Tip 2/3Intentional Act
Disobedience is a deliberate choice to not comply with rules or orders.
Choosing disobedience, she refused to pay the unfair fines.
Pro Tip 3/3Civil Protest
Civil disobedience is a nonviolent protest against laws deemed unjust.
The activists chose civil disobedience to fight the new policy.
Pro Tip 1/3Legal Consequences
Disobedience in a legal context often implies facing punishments like fines or jail.
His disobedience of traffic laws resulted in a hefty fine.
Pro Tip 2/3Intentional Act
Disobedience is a deliberate choice to not comply with rules or orders.
Choosing disobedience, she refused to pay the unfair fines.
Pro Tip 3/3Civil Protest
Civil disobedience is a nonviolent protest against laws deemed unjust.
The activists chose civil disobedience to fight the new policy.
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The hidden life of Rosa...
As advisor to the NAACP youth group council, she helped young people navigate segregated systems including voter registration and whites-only libraries. Through the cover of the NAACP, Parks strived to bring clandestine civil rights activities into the open. She advocated for civil disobedience training
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My $500 house in Detroit...
Or clergy and teachers engaging in civil disobedience to block water shutoff trucks. It's organizations buying back foreclosed homes for their inhabitants or fighting misinformation on forced sales through social media and volunteer-run hotlines. For me, it means helping others to raise the beams
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The psychology of evil PIPE...
It tells me something else. If you remember, God's favorite angel was Lucifer. Apparently, Lucifer means "the light." It also means "the morning star," in some scripture. And apparently, he disobeyed God, and that's the ultimate disobedience to authority.
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An unsung hero of the...
and left. In 1948, he traveled to India to learn the peaceful resistance strategies of the recently assassinated Mahatma Gandhi. He returned to the United States armed with strategies for peaceful protest, including civil disobedience.
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Saving the Redwoods PIPE...
this for a fact but I think it was probably the largest showing of civil disobedience for wilderness or the wild that the world has ever seen in an unsolved case two redwood activists were
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Black Women and the...
house um looking to pressure shame embarrass woodrow wilson and his administration into supporting a federal amendment for women's suffrage that will lead to civil disobedience
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After Decades of...
starring role gandhi's strategic civil disobedience is a far cry from the way asians are often depicted as a model minority that doesn't rock the boat it wins multiple oscars
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How to disagree...
For the uninitiated, the premises of formal debate are really there's a big idea on the table -- that we support civil disobedience, that we favor free trade --
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How an obese town lost a...
in this rare collective lack of judgment bordering on civil disobedience, the citizens elected me mayor. Now the city I inherited was just on the verge
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Let's make history…by...
the last eyewitness account of an incredible act of athleticism, disobedience, courage, unread, unheard,
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The hidden life of Rosa...
As advisor to the NAACP youth group council, she helped young people navigate segregated systems including voter registration and whites-only libraries. Through the cover of the NAACP, Parks strived to bring clandestine civil rights activities into the open. She advocated for civil disobedience training
Video examples
My $500 house in Detroit...
Or clergy and teachers engaging in civil disobedience to block water shutoff trucks. It's organizations buying back foreclosed homes for their inhabitants or fighting misinformation on forced sales through social media and volunteer-run hotlines. For me, it means helping others to raise the beams
Video examples
The psychology of evil PIPE...
It tells me something else. If you remember, God's favorite angel was Lucifer. Apparently, Lucifer means "the light." It also means "the morning star," in some scripture. And apparently, he disobeyed God, and that's the ultimate disobedience to authority.
Video examples
An unsung hero of the...
and left. In 1948, he traveled to India to learn the peaceful resistance strategies of the recently assassinated Mahatma Gandhi. He returned to the United States armed with strategies for peaceful protest, including civil disobedience.
Video examples
Saving the Redwoods PIPE...
this for a fact but I think it was probably the largest showing of civil disobedience for wilderness or the wild that the world has ever seen in an unsolved case two redwood activists were
Video examples
Black Women and the...
house um looking to pressure shame embarrass woodrow wilson and his administration into supporting a federal amendment for women's suffrage that will lead to civil disobedience
Video examples
After Decades of...
starring role gandhi's strategic civil disobedience is a far cry from the way asians are often depicted as a model minority that doesn't rock the boat it wins multiple oscars
Video examples
How to disagree...
For the uninitiated, the premises of formal debate are really there's a big idea on the table -- that we support civil disobedience, that we favor free trade --
Video examples
How an obese town lost a...
in this rare collective lack of judgment bordering on civil disobedience, the citizens elected me mayor. Now the city I inherited was just on the verge
Video examples
Let's make history…by...
the last eyewitness account of an incredible act of athleticism, disobedience, courage, unread, unheard,
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John Lewis
American Politician
I remember back in the 1960s - late '50s, really - reading a comic book called 'Martin Luther King Jr. and the Montgomery Story.' Fourteen pages. It sold for 10 cents. And this little book inspired me to attend non-violence workshops, to study about Gandhi, about Thoreau, to study Martin Luther King, Jr., to study civil disobedience.
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Al Gore
American Vice President
Civil disobedience has an honourable history, and when the urgency and moral clarity cross a certain threshold, then I think that civil disobedience is quite understandable, and it has a role to play.
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John Bytheway
American Author
Adversity is simply part of earth life. From it we can grow and progress if we choose to. Yes, some trials come because of our own disobedience, but many trials are simply part of life.
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Mona Eltahawy
Egyptian Journalist
What is satire if not a marriage of civil disobedience to a laugh track, a potent brew of derision and lack of respect that acts as a nettle sting on the thin skin of the humourless?
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Caroline Fraser
American Writer
I was afraid to admit feeling ill because even when I was 4 or 5, I knew that my father viewed sickness as a sign of weakness, of sin, of disobedience.
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Ariel Sharon
Israeli Leader
Expressions of disobedience naturally encourage terrorist organizations and motivate them to intensify their actions.
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Greta Thunburg
Swedish Environmentalist
You can rebel in different ways. Civil disobedience is rebelling. As long as it's peaceful, of course.
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Gail Bradbrook
British Activist
Change comes when people are willing to commit acts of peaceful civil disobedience.
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Henry David Thoreau
American Author
Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.
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Noam Chomsky
American Activist
Civil disobedience is - it's no fun.
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John Lewis
American Politician
I remember back in the 1960s - late '50s, really - reading a comic book called 'Martin Luther King Jr. and the Montgomery Story.' Fourteen pages. It sold for 10 cents. And this little book inspired me to attend non-violence workshops, to study about Gandhi, about Thoreau, to study Martin Luther King, Jr., to study civil disobedience.
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Al Gore
American Vice President
Civil disobedience has an honourable history, and when the urgency and moral clarity cross a certain threshold, then I think that civil disobedience is quite understandable, and it has a role to play.
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John Bytheway
American Author
Adversity is simply part of earth life. From it we can grow and progress if we choose to. Yes, some trials come because of our own disobedience, but many trials are simply part of life.
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Mona Eltahawy
Egyptian Journalist
What is satire if not a marriage of civil disobedience to a laugh track, a potent brew of derision and lack of respect that acts as a nettle sting on the thin skin of the humourless?
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Caroline Fraser
American Writer
I was afraid to admit feeling ill because even when I was 4 or 5, I knew that my father viewed sickness as a sign of weakness, of sin, of disobedience.
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Ariel Sharon
Israeli Leader
Expressions of disobedience naturally encourage terrorist organizations and motivate them to intensify their actions.
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Greta Thunburg
Swedish Environmentalist
You can rebel in different ways. Civil disobedience is rebelling. As long as it's peaceful, of course.
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Gail Bradbrook
British Activist
Change comes when people are willing to commit acts of peaceful civil disobedience.
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Henry David Thoreau
American Author
Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.
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Noam Chomsky
American Activist
Civil disobedience is - it's no fun.
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