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disobedience
noun
1 disobedience
The failure to obey.
synonym: noncompliance.
Roget 742:
disobedience,
insubordination,
contumacy;
infraction,
infringement;
violation,
noncompliance;
nonobservance
etc.
773.
revolt,
rebellion,
mutiny,
outbreak,
rising,
uprising,
insurrection,
emeute [Fr.];
riot,
tumult
etc.
(disorder)
59;
strike
etc.
(resistance)
719;
barring out;
defiance
etc.
715.
mutinousness
etc.
adj.;
mutineering†;
sedition,
treason;
high treason,
petty treason,
misprision of treason;
premunire [Lat.];
lese majeste [Fr.];
violation of law
etc.
964;
defection,
secession.
insurgent,
mutineer,
rebel,
revolter,
revolutionary,
rioter,
traitor,
quisling,
carbonaro†,
sansculottes [Fr.],
red republican,
bonnet rouge,
communist,
Fenian,
frondeur;
seceder,
secessionist,
runagate,
renegade,
brawler,
anarchist,
demagogue;
Spartacus,
Masaniello,
Wat Tyler,
Jack Cade;
ringleader.
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Roget 773:
nonobservance
etc.
772;
evasion,
inobservance,
failure,
omission,
neglect,
laches [Law],
laxity,
informality.
infringement,
infraction;
violation,
transgression;
piracy.
retraction,
retractation†,
repudiation,
nullification;
protest;
forfeiture.
lawlessness;
disobedience
etc.
742;
bad faith
etc.
940.
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Roget 964:
lawlessness;
illicitness;
breach of law,
violation of law,
infraction of the law;
disobedience
etc.
742;
unconformity
etc.
83.
arbitrariness
etc.
adj.;
antinomy,
violence,
brute force,
despotism,
outlawry.
mob law,
lynch law,
club law,
Lydford law,
martial law,
drumhead law;
coup d'etat [Fr.];
le droit du plus fort [Fr.];
argumentum baculinum [Lat.].
illegality,
informality,
unlawfulness,
illegitimacy,
bar sinister.
trover and conversion [Law];
smuggling,
poaching;
simony.
[person who violates the law]
outlaw,
bad man
etc.
949.
v..
offend against the law;
violate the law,
infringe the law,
break the law;
set the law at defiance,
ride roughshod over,
drive a coach and six through a statute;
ignore the law,
make the law a dead letter,
take the law into one's own hands.
smuggle,
run,
poach.
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2 disobedience
The trait of being unwilling to obey.
Dutch: ongehoorzaamheid
Polish: krnąbrność, niesforność, niesfora, nieposłuszeństwo, niekarność, niesubordynacja
Moby thesaurus: abnegation, antipathy, averseness, aversion, backwardness, contradiction, cursoriness, declension, declination, declinature, declining, denial, deprivation, disagreement, disallowance, disclaimer, disclamation, disinclination, disrelish, dissent, distaste, foot-dragging, fractiousness, grudging consent, grudgingness, holding back, indiscipline, indisposedness, indisposition, indocility, insubordination, interregnum, intractableness, irresponsibility, lack of enthusiasm, lack of zeal, lawlessness, license, licentiousness, mutinousness, mutiny, nay, negation, negative, negative answer, nix, no, nolition, nonacceptance, noncompliance, nonconsent, nonobservance, obstinacy, opposition, perfunctoriness, power vacuum, rampant will, recalcitrance, recalcitrancy, recantation, refractoriness, refusal, rejection, reluctance, renitence, renitency, repudiation, repugnance, resistance, retention, slowness, stubbornness, sulk, sulkiness, sulks, sullenness, thumbs-down, turndown, unaccountability, uncontrol, unenthusiasm, unrestraint, unwillingness, willfulness, withholding ... show more.
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