The student's disobedience shocked the teacher.
The dog was punished for its disobedience.
Recent Examples on the WebSantos’ actions violated the city’s Rule and Regulations of the Civil Service Board’s rule regarding discourteous treatment of any member of the public, willful disobedience, and discrediting the city, the letter stated.—Theresa Clift, Sacramento Bee, 17 Apr. 2024 The incident’s discipline record, provided by Rice, lists a series of categories to explain the suspension: insubordination, disobedience, disrespectful/minor disruption, inappropriate language, non-compliance.—Sarah Butrymowicz, USA TODAY, 3 Apr. 2024 Sending a none-too-subtle shot across the bow, the judge reminded Mr. Blanche’s team of his power to punish disobedience with criminal contempt.—Alan Feuer, New York Times, 4 Apr. 2024 Some districts in Ohio, such as Cleveland Municipal, reduced the number of disobedience suspensions of Black children over the past year, but the number in Ohio overall climbed to more than 78,400 in 2022-23, up 16% from the previous year.—Meredith Kolodner, USA TODAY, 1 Apr. 2024 Women’s disobedience resulted in severe physical punishment, with instances of Roman women being kicked to death, drowned and thrown from windows.—Julia Khrebtan-Hörhager, The Conversation, 7 Mar. 2024 Roosevelt was unimpressed by their creativity, not to mention their disobedience.—Joseph Thorndike, Forbes, 26 Feb. 2024 On Reddit, dozens of users described the bot’s disobedience on tasks, like asking it to write a short summary on a topic and instead receiving an essay.—Sunny Nagpaul, Fortune, 5 Feb. 2024 Published in 1936, it was read by some as a parable about pacifism and disobedience (and banned in fascist Spain and Germany by Franco and Hitler).—Roxana Popescu, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Nov. 2023
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