Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a disobedient manner.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In a disobedient manner.
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- adverb In a
disobedient manner
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb in a disobedient manner
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Examples
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Then, before him, at his feet, he saw an extremely small live thing, only several inches long, a young weasel, that, like himself, had disobediently gone out adventuring.
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When Haitian disobediently attempted to implement policies they had been elected to implement, they were undermined, and if necessary, kidnapped.
Isabel Macdonald: Clinton Apologizes for U.S. Role in Destroying Haitian Democracy (Happy April Fool's Day!) Isabel Macdonald 2011
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Unless they were convinced by active experience that it was okay to say "no" and in essence behave disobediently to an adult, they just couldn't bring themselves to be so rude or risk the imagined punishment.
Judith Acosta, LISW, CHT: Self-Defense Against Narcissists: Why 'No' Is So Hard to Say Judith Acosta 2010
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Unless they were convinced by active experience that it was okay to say "no" and in essence behave disobediently to an adult, they just couldn't bring themselves to be so rude or risk the imagined punishment.
Judith Acosta, LISW, CHT: Self-Defense Against Narcissists: Why 'No' Is So Hard to Say Judith Acosta 2010
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Unless they were convinced by active experience that it was okay to say "no" and in essence behave disobediently to an adult, they just couldn't bring themselves to be so rude or risk the imagined punishment.
Judith Acosta, LISW, CHT: Self-Defense Against Narcissists: Why 'No' Is So Hard to Say Judith Acosta 2010
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His hair flops disobediently into his eyes and he gathers it up from time to time with a swipe.
An easy label for Christopher Hitchens? Careful, it could be a fighting word 2010
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Unless they were convinced by active experience that it was okay to say "no" and in essence behave disobediently to an adult, they just couldn't bring themselves to be so rude or risk the imagined punishment.
Judith Acosta, LISW, CHT: Self-Defense Against Narcissists: Why 'No' Is So Hard to Say Judith Acosta 2010
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Clary turned her head to the side, disobediently, and was rewarded with a razoring stab of pain that shot down her back.
Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series Cassandra Clare 2009
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Clary turned her head to the side, disobediently, and was rewarded with a razoring stab of pain that shot down her back.
The Mortal Instruments: Book One: City of Bones Cassandra Clare 2007
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And I must come at correspondences so disobediently carried on.
Clarissa Harlowe 2006
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