waywardness

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Noun
  • Kirk's assassination is the most high-profile example yet of what extremism researchers at the NCRI see as an increasingly dangerous normalization of political violence—often masked as satire, rebellion, or dark humor online.
    Jesus Mesa, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Sep. 2025
  • One accommodation, the Rebel Suite, takes its design cues from the sea rebellions of Islay, full of nautical references, striking patterns, and bold green and blue hues.
    Nicole Hoey, Robb Report, 11 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Others including, longtime Sacramento resident Richard Alcala, viewed the festivities as an act of defiance against the current presidential administration.
    Mathew Miranda, Sacbee.com, 16 Sep. 2025
  • In Schorr’s photograph, the duo, played by Julia Garner and Cole Escola, is more ambiguous, more gender-flouting, projecting an air of affectionate defiance.
    The New Yorker, New Yorker, 15 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • While this change reduces the explicit admission of willfulness, a narrative is still required.
    Virginia La Torre Jeker, Forbes.com, 4 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • This element of female rebelliousness is very important to me.
    Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2019
Noun
  • Many individuals remain out of necessity, not due to willful disobedience , but because of sudden changes in personal or political circumstances—including armed conflict, economic collapse, or family emergencies.
    Andy J. Semotiuk, Forbes.com, 5 Aug. 2025
  • Thanks to that act of disobedience, the document is now preserved at Fort Ligonier.
    Aurora Martínez, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 July 2025
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