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civil disobedience

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Synonyms and Antonyms of civil disobedience

refusal to obey laws as a way of forcing the government to do or change something

In an act of civil disobedience, the family sent its tax money to an antiwar organization.

A student organization is encouraging civil disobedience as a way to get the university to change its policies.

Synonyms and Near Synonyms of civil disobedience

balkiness, contrariness, contumacy, defiance, disobedience, frowardness, insubordination, intractability, obstreperousness, rebellion, rebelliousness, recalcitrance, refractoriness, unruliness, waywardness, willfulness

doggedness, hardheadedness, mulishness, obduracy, obdurateness, obstinacy, obstinateness, peevishness, pertinaciousness, pertinacity, perversity, self-will, stubbornness, tenaciousness, tenacity

Antonyms and Near Antonyms of civil disobedience

agreeability, amenability, amiability

slavishness, submissiveness, subservience, subserviency

deference, docility, dutifulness

compliance, obedience, submission, subordinateness, subordination, tractability, tractableness

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