| 单词 | insubordinate |
| 释义 | in·subordinate I. a. < insubordinate boys > b. < the bankers of Antwerp placed no limit on their enterprise: economic activity was not subordinate; it had become, from the medieval point of view, insubordinate — Stringfellow Barr > Synonyms: < insubordinate deckhands confined to the brig > < insubordinate native troops feeling that they were being discriminated against > rebellious may suggest forceful resistance to or insurgence against authority in addition to insubordination and temperamental opposition < rebellious mountaineers proposing to set up their own independent republic > < temperamentally rebellious, instinctively disliking externally imposed authority — Francis Biddle > mutinous suggests either opposing authority by destroying discipline and order or the forceful overthrow of authority < for more than a year Cortes stayed in the new land, a desolate sandy waste, while the mutinous soldiers cursed him — American Guide Series: California > < the guards might be overpowered, the palace forced, the king a prisoner in the hands of his mutinous subjects — T.B.Macaulay > seditious suggests treasonable activities, especially those designed to weaken or overthrow a government or foster separatist tendencies < seditious factionalism went on a rampage and began to wreck our foreign policy — Max Ascoli > < revolutions that were not made in Boston, by Boston gentlemen, were quite certain to be wicked and seditious — V.L.Parrington > factious suggests an addiction to factions with contentious perversity and irreconcilability threatening central constituted authority < Florence … wearing out her soul by factious struggles — Margaret Oliphant > < the opposition will be vigilant but not factious. We shall not oppose merely for the sake of opposition — Clement Attlee > contumacious indicates persistent, willful, or overt defiance of authority and disobedience, sometimes contemptuous, of authority < a fine was appointed for every failure to obey the bishop's summons; he was empowered to excommunicate contumacious persons — F.M.Stenton > < magistrates and populace were incensed at a refusal of customary marks of courtesy and respect for the laws, which in their eyes was purely contumacious — W.R.Inge > II. |
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