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单词 insubordinate
释义 in·subordinate
I. \“+\ adjective
Etymology: in- (I) + subordinate
: not subordinate: as
 a. : unwilling to submit to authority : disobedient, mutinous
  < insubordinate boys >
 b. : not holding a lower or inferior position
  < the bankers of Antwerp placed no limit on their enterprise: economic activity was not subordinate; it had become, from the medieval point of view, insubordinate — Stringfellow Barr >
Synonyms:
 rebellious, mutinous, seditious, factious, contumacious: insubordinate applies to disobedience of orders, infraction of rules, or a generally disaffected attitude toward authority, often in military or other organization similarly constituted
  < insubordinate deckhands confined to the brig >
  < insubordinate native troops feeling that they were being discriminated against >
  rebellious may suggest forceful resistance to or insurgence against authority in addition to insubordination and temperamental opposition
  < rebellious mountaineers proposing to set up their own independent republic >
  < temperamentally rebellious, instinctively disliking externally imposed authority — Francis Biddle >
  mutinous suggests either opposing authority by destroying discipline and order or the forceful overthrow of authority
  < for more than a year Cortes stayed in the new land, a desolate sandy waste, while the mutinous soldiers cursed him — American Guide Series: California >
  < the guards might be overpowered, the palace forced, the king a prisoner in the hands of his mutinous subjects — T.B.Macaulay >
  seditious suggests treasonable activities, especially those designed to weaken or overthrow a government or foster separatist tendencies
  < seditious factionalism went on a rampage and began to wreck our foreign policy — Max Ascoli >
  < revolutions that were not made in Boston, by Boston gentlemen, were quite certain to be wicked and seditious — V.L.Parrington >
  factious suggests an addiction to factions with contentious perversity and irreconcilability threatening central constituted authority
  < Florence … wearing out her soul by factious struggles — Margaret Oliphant >
  < the opposition will be vigilant but not factious. We shall not oppose merely for the sake of opposition — Clement Attlee >
  contumacious indicates persistent, willful, or overt defiance of authority and disobedience, sometimes contemptuous, of authority
  < a fine was appointed for every failure to obey the bishop's summons; he was empowered to excommunicate contumacious persons — F.M.Stenton >
  < magistrates and populace were incensed at a refusal of customary marks of courtesy and respect for the laws, which in their eyes was purely contumacious — W.R.Inge >
II. noun
: an insubordinate person
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