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• a  not submissive to authority
  a history of insubordinate behavior
  insubordinate boys
• s  disposed to or engaged in defiance of established authority

• The soldier, who has a Muslim name, had, according to military sources, recently been acting insubordinate; his superiors had decided not to bring him into Iraq.
• Trotsky claimed that Stalin, a political commissar at that time, was insubordinate.
• The verse goes on to say that the husband of an insubordinate wife should first admonish her, then leave her to sleep alone and finally beat her.

• resistant
• resistive

• subordinate

News & Articles

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• Tunisia arrests Muslim cleric for hardline sermon
  Tunisian police arrested an imam after he delivered a sermon described as "insubordinate," the Interior Ministry said Wednesday, in the first high-profile arrest since the government began taking a harder line toward religious conservatives.
  June 19, 2013 - Fox News
• Tunisia arrests Muslim cleric for sermon as state cracks down on religious hardliners
  TUNIS, Tunisia — Tunisian police arrested an imam after he delivered a sermon described as "insubordinate," the Interior Ministry said Wednesday, in the first high-profile arrest since the government began taking a harder line toward religious conservatives.
  June 19, 2013 - Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune

Quotes

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• Monique Gagnon-Tremblay in CanadaEast.com
  We warned him not to bug the complainant and the first thing he does is send her a note informing her that her job is being modified,said Gagnon-Tremblay. "I told myself: 'If he showed a lack of judgment and was stubborn and insubordinate...
• Todd Dodge in Dallas Morning News
  Foul language was being used on the sideline that was redirected by a coach,Dodge said. "He was insubordinate when he was being redirected. I can promise you that 'hood' was not the only word that was used. I don't have any problem with...
• Dusty Baker in MLB.com
  I'm not going to say too much because I might get suspended myself for saying the wrong thing and being insubordinate. I was watching Jim Rome last night and he was saying it's a free country and you can say what you want about somebody else,...