as in rebelliousness
failure or refusal to do what someone has told or asked you to do; lack of cooperation
They adopted a strategy of noncooperation until they were treated fairly.
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Recent Examples of noncooperation
Nevertheless, some common, noncooperation policies have existed in a handful of places, including Charlotte, where the police don't help with immigration enforcement.
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CBS News,
18 Nov. 2025
Some might argue that for middle America conditions are not yet painful enough, socially or economically, to inspire sustained noncooperation.
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Michael Shank,
MSNBC Newsweek,
27 Oct. 2025
Any entity receiving city funding, such as contractors, would have to follow the city’s warrant and noncooperation standards.
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Michael Smolens,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
26 Oct. 2025
Attempted strikes, boycotts, and other forms of mass noncooperation were weak, localized, and lacked support.
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Erica Chenoweth,
Foreign Affairs,
16 June 2014
See All Example Sentences for noncooperation
CBS News,
18 Nov. 2025
Some might argue that for middle America conditions are not yet painful enough, socially or economically, to inspire sustained noncooperation.
—
Michael Shank,
MSNBC Newsweek,
27 Oct. 2025
Any entity receiving city funding, such as contractors, would have to follow the city’s warrant and noncooperation standards.
—
Michael Smolens,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
26 Oct. 2025
Attempted strikes, boycotts, and other forms of mass noncooperation were weak, localized, and lacked support.
—
Erica Chenoweth,
Foreign Affairs,
16 June 2014
See All Example Sentences for noncooperation
Recent Examples of Synonyms for noncooperation
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Marji’s rebelliousness, both admirable and terrifying for those who love her, is her salient characteristic.
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The pseudo-goth hair and costume choices speak to an inner rebelliousness that isn’t so much unleashed as forced loose by a system that values the appearance of a mythical impartiality over her humanity, leaving her with little recourse but to step outside the confines of the law.
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The Battle of the Alamo was one of the most monumental conflicts of the Texas Revolution, a rebellion that ended in Texas becoming independent from Mexico and establishing itself as a republic for nearly a decade before US statehood.
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In the press release for the album, you were quoted using the word rebellion when talking about rock and roll.
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But the results also suggested that in an earlier era, dark energy could have grown stronger, in seeming defiance of the law of energy conservation.
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Instead, Defendants appear to be actively undermining the restoration of the Kennedy Center’s name, in a petty act of defiance.
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Those leaders who ignore or flout the law aren’t merely unethical but fatally arrogant, putting their childish willfulness over the wisdom of generations.
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Though the Durutti Column had been a disaster, Wilson was fascinated by the guitarist, who admired punk’s willfulness even though his own musical taste tended toward jazz, blues, and the classical tradition.
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And there’s no disrespect intended to fellow Hawks draftee Zuby Ejiofor (a 6-foot-7, 245-pound senior who was Big East Player of the Year and Defensive Player of the Year?
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Now the removal or disrespect for women.
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Archie’s stubbornness is a reflex to his worldview being attacked without first acknowledging his experience.
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There was also Tortorella’s stubbornness in sticking with goalie Carter Hart, who set the wrong type of records in the Stanley Cup Final.
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The Catholic Church teaches that all other people are conceived with original sin as a result of Adam and Eve’s disobedience to God in the Garden of Eden.
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There is zero tolerance for political disobedience.
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“Noncooperation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/noncooperation. Accessed 26 Jun. 2026.
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