Disobeyed
[,dɪsə'beɪd]
Definition
(imp. & p. p.) of Disobey
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Examples
- Who could know that Lydgate's prescription would not be better disobeyed than followed, since there was still no sleep? George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- How my orders came to be disobeyed is a question to which I don't know the answer. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- She had already secretly disobeyed him by asking her father to help them, and he had ended decisively by saying, I am more likely to want help myself. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- And he may have tampered with the patient--he may have disobeyed my orders. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Fred had received this order before, and had secretly disobeyed it. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Why had he disobeyed his father, who had been always so generous to him? William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Both she and my son disobeyed me in marrying; therefore I have no interest in their households. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
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