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Meanings of rebellious in English
Discontented as toward authority.
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Examples for "disaffected"
Examples for "disaffected"
1
And the number of the disaffected in the army is always increasing.
2
It's too good and too final an escape route for disaffected comrades.
3
It is also home to nomad clans disaffected with rule from Cairo.
4
A high turnout could show whether SF has mobilised the disaffected vote.
5
Besides, the British have lost their interest in America with the disaffected.
1
I was the oldest and most malcontent goddess on the ancient continent.
2
The malcontent repeated his vow, and it rang throughout the village-city.
3
The movement was not so much definitely royalist as vaguely malcontent.
4
Burridge became little more than a malcontent in many people's eyes.
5
I was described as a dangerous malcontent, who had deserted his native land.
1
Thus ill-affected did Ferdinand find the Bohemians, when he succeeded Matthias.
2
There is no king here so hateful to me as you are, for you are ever quarrelsome and ill-affected.
Usage of rebellious in English
1
Yet in the crisis of such a struggle rebellious thoughts may arise.
2
She was branded as 'rebellious' and treacherous' by her own party members.
3
Nevertheless, the King held the rebellious Okies under control without apparent effort.
4
Her usual rebellious spells involved lifestyle changes that lasted a few months.
5
She became a very, very rebellious teenager, in every possible way .
6
The war against the rebellious states was never really popular in England.
7
I always had a rebellious nature and was quite disruptive in class.
8
Her muscles were tense; she stood in an attitude of rebellious pride.
9
The people now residing in the late rebellious States are generally impoverished.
10
But Catalonia has never had a problem with flaunting its rebellious streak.
11
So we get rebellious and say, I'm going to make it happen.
12
The people riotous and rebellious-thearmy defeated-andthe enemy marching upon Vienna.
13
Two rebellious spirits held in check by the will of Zoraida Castelmar.
14
Elena showed me that my rebellious and partly moody ways are wrong.
15
Elena fell upon the floor and sobbed with rebellious mortification and terror.
16
In the wilderness they were frequently rebellious, and they were often punished.
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Rebellious across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Common
Ireland
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