Synonyms for disobedience
ˌdɪs əˈbi di ənsdis·obe·di·ence

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1. disobediencenoun

   Synonyms:
   contumacy, rebellion

   Antonyms:
   obedience

2. disobediencenoun

   Refusal to obey.

   the disobedient child

   Synonyms:
   contumacy, rebellion

   Antonyms:
   obedience

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1. disobedience, noncompliancenoun

   the failure to obey

   Synonyms:
   noncompliance

   Antonyms:
   obedience, obeisance

2. disobediencenoun

   the trait of being unwilling to obey

   Synonyms:
   noncompliance

   Antonyms:
   obedience, obeisance

Matched Categories

1. • Insubordination
   • Intractability

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1. disobediencenoun

   Synonyms:
   infraction or violation of a command

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1. disobediencenoun

   Synonyms:
   contumacy, dereliction, undutifulness, defiance, insubmission, noncompliance, indocility, insubordination

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1. List of paraphrases for "disobedience":

   insubordination, mutiny, insurgency, rebellion, insurrection, defiance, sedition

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1. Robin Krawitz:

   The man put his life on the line and the life of his family on the line to do work that was illegal at the time, we can look back and say that our system was wrong. He was not wrong, he was practicing civil disobedience.

2. Thomas Haliburton:

   Wherever there is authority, there is a natural inclination to disobedience.

3. Mark Goldstone:

   Doug's dramatic act of aerial civil disobedience was a cry that our democracy is in peril unless ordinary citizens feel free to speak up and have their voices heard by their government.

4. Tim Piazza:

   This is the result of a feeling of entitlement, flagrant disobedience of the law, and disregard for moral values that was then exacerbated by egregious acts of self-preservation.

5. Thomas Gokey:

   No big change like this ever happens without mass mobilization ; without ordinary people getting organized to take direct action and engage in civil disobedience.