rebelliousness

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Recent Examples of rebelliousness The performance goes from fiery to ineffectual as DiCaprio’s character, Bob, loses his youthful rebelliousness in a haze of pot and resignation. Tim Grierson, Vulture, 26 Sep. 2025 The rebelliousness can be witnessed in everything from its ’70s-in-California style to the very naming conventions Mother chooses for its viral products — adored by A-listers like Gigi Hadid, Chrissy Teigen, Millie Bobby Brown, and more. Kristina Rutkowski, Footwear News, 22 Sep. 2025 This element of female rebelliousness is very important to me. Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for rebelliousness
Noun
  • Readers meet Anne, who walks out of Eden not out of rebellion but love.
    Maria Williams, USA Today, 24 Oct. 2025
  • Netanyahu, meanwhile, faces rebellion from right-wing ministers who want to block a path to Palestinian statehood and annex the West Bank.
    Eric Cortellessa, Time, 23 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Here, in two very different settings, its mix of exultation, defiance and acknowledgment of the very real possibility of defeat could not be more apt.
    Sheri Linden, HollywoodReporter, 27 Oct. 2025
  • The Barca team also participated — in defiance of their own club hierarchy — by pausing during the first 15 seconds of their match at home to Girona the previous day.
    Dermot Corrigan, New York Times, 25 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Either of these original conditions would compel us to curb our aspirations to self-making, self-saving, and self-liberation as harmful forms of willfulness.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 10 Oct. 2025
  • While this change reduces the explicit admission of willfulness, a narrative is still required.
    Virginia La Torre Jeker, Forbes.com, 4 Aug. 2025

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“Rebelliousness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rebelliousness. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.

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