Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a rebellious manner; with violent or obstinate disobedience or resistance to lawful authority.
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- adverb In a
rebellious manner.
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- adverb in a rebellious manner
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Examples
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"Oh, this desire! this want! want! want!" she broke in rebelliously.
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"Oh, this desire! this want! want! want!" she broke in rebelliously.
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Reply Obj. 2: The essence of schism consists in rebelliously disobeying the commandments: and I say "rebelliously," since a schismatic both obstinately scorns the commandments of the Church, and refuses to submit to her judgment.
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Twenty years of unwilling apprenticeship had been required to make my system rebelliously tolerant of alcohol, to make me, in the heart and the deeps of me, desirous of alcohol.
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Starting wilfully determined, she becomes an ardent learner, and ends up rebelliously independent.
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It says much that so rebelliously unconventional a character as “Temei” Akamatsu could thrive in the rigid hierarchy of the Imperial Navy.
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In the Soviet Union, where all religion was practically prohibited and anti-Semitism was sanctioned by the state, dyeing eggs was only slightly less daring than buying matzo, which is why, I suspect, my nonconformist mother rebelliously did both.
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In the Soviet Union, where all religion was practically prohibited and anti-Semitism was sanctioned by the state, dyeing eggs was only slightly less daring than buying matzo, which is why, I suspect, my nonconformist mother rebelliously did both.
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She began as a schoolgirl, rebelliously smuggling a few cigarettes here and there after classes.
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She began as a schoolgirl, rebelliously smuggling a few cigarettes here and there after classes.
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