Rebellious
[rɪ'beljəs] or [rɪ'bɛljəs]
Definition
(adj.) participating in organized resistance to a constituted government; 'the rebelling confederacy' .
(adj.) resisting control or authority; 'temperamentally rebellious'; 'a rebellious crew' .
Typist: Norton--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Engaged in rebellion; disposed to rebel; of the nature of rebels or of rebellion; resisting government or lawful authority by force.
Editor: Winthrop
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Insubordinate, riotous, disobedient, mutinous, refractory, contumacious, seditious, traitorous.
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Examples
- It is the right-hand parlour, into which an aspiring kitchen fireplace appears to have walked, accompanied by a rebellious poker, tongs, and shovel. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- The latter had been raving against America, as traitorous, rebellious, &c. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- The words gave him an electric shock, for few were the rebellious spirits who would have dared to call the stately home of the van der Luydens gloomy. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- Usurpers, rebellious generals, and false prophets seemed to have vanished from the Moslem dominions. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- And does not the latter--I mean the rebellious principle--furnish a great variety of materials for imitation? Plato. The Republic.
- The most rebellious, saucy, impudent dog! Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- The Casaubon cuttle-fish fluid to begin with, and then a rebellious Polish fiddler or dancing-master, was it? George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- She was in the reaction of a rebellious anger stronger than any she had felt since her marriage. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- I'll cover him up, and then go and set Meg's heart at rest, thought John, creeping to the bedside, hoping to find his rebellious heir asleep. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- If Christianity was a rebellious and destructive force towards a pagan Rome, it was a unifying and organizing force within its own communion. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- She thanked God for this, and this alone, with a fervour that swept away all rebellious feelings from her mind. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- The rebellious spirit of Tom Paine expressed itself in logical formul? as inflexible to the pace of life as did the more contented Hamilton's. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- No, really, Mrs. Farebrother, I am glad of both, I fear, said Mary, cleverly getting rid of one rebellious tear. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- O no--I don't want to be rebellious in that way, she said sadly. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- He has a sullen, rebellious spirit; a violent temper; and an untoward, intractable disposition. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- You rebellious spirit! Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- I saw Uriah watch her while she greeted us; and he reminded me of an ugly and rebellious genie watching a good spirit. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- In his company, my first business was to go to that part of the coast where my rebellious crew had ordered me to be set on shore. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
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