Explore Disobedience through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like obedience or noncompliance. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Disobedience meaning
Refusal to obey.
Synonyms of Disobedience
Using Disobedience
- The main meaning on this page is: Refusal to obey.
- Useful related words include: obedience, noncompliance, insubordination, rebelliousness.
- In the example corpus, disobedience often appears in combinations such as: civil disobedience, disobedience to, disobedience and.
Context around Disobedience
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.7 words
- Position in the sentence: 4 start, 10 middle, 6 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Disobedience
- In this selection, "disobedience" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 24.7 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, civil, child, states and campaign stand out and add context to how "disobedience" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a civil disobedience campaign and and civil disobedience. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "disobedience" sits close to words such as alluded, apostolic and babe, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with disobedience
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Is Mass Civil Disobedience Our Future? (6 words)
And they're not new to civil disobedience in Tennessee. (10 words)
Mother Vacca threatened serious canonical and civil consequences in case of disobedience. (12 words)
Any action that is a peaceful action of civil disobedience is worthy and more to push all of us to do better and to do more and to pass (H.R.) 1, S 1 and to pass the John Robert Lewis Voting Rights Act,” Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas) stated. (51 words)
You will see that there is no disobedience as a ground (for annulment of election) Even in Plateau where they say that there was no valid congress, that they didn’t even have a structure that will warrant for them to sponsor a candidate. (44 words)
Nearly seven years earlier, more than 1,000 Memphis residents took over the same bridge in the largest act of civil disobedience in the city’s history following the police killings of Alton Sterling in Louisiana and Philando Castile in Minnesota. (41 words)
Is Mass Civil Disobedience Our Future? (6 words)
Example sentences (20)
Groups including the National Secular Society (NSS) have also raised concerns, amid claims the church links child 'disobedience' to witchcraft - citing the David Oyedepo Ministries website, which states 'disobedience is as terrible as witchcraft'.
What began as a campaign of civil disobedience has evolved into one of uncivil disobedience.
And they're not new to civil disobedience in Tennessee.
Any action that is a peaceful action of civil disobedience is worthy and more to push all of us to do better and to do more and to pass (H.R.) 1, S 1 and to pass the John Robert Lewis Voting Rights Act,” Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas) stated.
From 1953, a policy to compel detainees to engage in work was introduced and disobedience was redefined as a major offence.
He added some protesters told him that if the taxes weren’t taken back, they would move towards Islamabad and start a civil disobedience campaign.
Is Mass Civil Disobedience Our Future?
Mother Vacca threatened serious canonical and civil consequences in case of disobedience.
Nearly seven years earlier, more than 1,000 Memphis residents took over the same bridge in the largest act of civil disobedience in the city’s history following the police killings of Alton Sterling in Louisiana and Philando Castile in Minnesota.
The address by the President earlier this morning limiting the legal tender status of old notes to only N200 amounts to total disregard and disobedience of the ruling of February 8th, which the Supreme Court extended further yesterday.
The first major beneficiary is Puigdemont, who faces charges of disobedience and embezzlement.
They also expressed fear of a probable breakdown of public order and civil disobedience.
When Eve took the fruit she ate it out of disobedience to God and gave it to Adam to eat also.
You will see that there is no disobedience as a ground (for annulment of election) Even in Plateau where they say that there was no valid congress, that they didn’t even have a structure that will warrant for them to sponsor a candidate.
A Chief Magistrate’s Court sitting in Igbokoda has sentenced the Baale of Ebute Ipare Community in Ilaje local government area of Ondo State, Francis Ogundeji, to three-year imprisonment for disobedience to court order.
At university, Nelson participates in the campaign of disobedience to unjust laws.
Beebe, however, invoked the civil disobedience of the Civil Rights Movement and named the hypocrisy, especially to a bishop who had marched with Martin Luther King Jr. at Selma.
Civil disobedience has by far been the most effective, the most effective in building the movement, inspiring other activists, getting this urgency.
He maintained that the offences in the charge bordered on his activities as a public officer, his alleged disobedience to presidential directives, as well as the alleged forgery of a letter dated May 22, 2003.
If it wasn’t for disobedience, we wouldn’t have the best of Kafka’s work.
Common combinations with disobedience
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- civil disobedience 96×
- disobedience to 34×
- disobedience and 21×
- disobedience of 16×
- of disobedience 15×
- and disobedience 8×
- disobedience is 7×
- for disobedience 7×
- disobedience in 6×
- disobedience movement 6×