How to Use insubordinate in a Sentence

insubordinate

adjective
Definition of insubordinatenext
Synonyms for insubordinatenext
  • His behavior was unprofessional and insubordinate.
  • The rulers of the Joseon dynasty, for instance, used to send insubordinate aristocrats there to stop them from meddling in politics.
    — The Economist, 18 Jan. 2020
  • The lever is pulled and the handmaids do not hang, because this was a mock execution; a lesson for insubordinate handmaids.
    — Emma Dibdin, Harper's BAZAAR, 25 Apr. 2018
  • Musk’s team was asked to comb through messages in Twitter’s internal chat platform and make a list of employees who were insubordinate, people briefed on the plan said.
    — Ryan Mac, BostonGlobe.com, 15 Nov. 2022
  • These are not the insubordinate and unprofessional 2011 Red Sox who buried themselves in a heap of beer cans and chicken bones in an epic September collapse.
    — Chad Finn, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Aug. 2019
  • The report said Comey, who announced in the summer of 2016 that Clinton would not be charged with any crime in the e-mail probe, was insubordinate and departed from normal protocol numerous times.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 14 June 2018
  • Little, reading the texts aloud, sought to paint the group as insubordinate employees who reveled in the tumultuous aftermath of their report.
    — Philip Jankowski, Dallas News, 8 Sep. 2023
  • The city also says Isaacs was insubordinate, even rude to supervisors, city records of Isaacs' termination show.
    — Kate Murphy, Cincinnati.com, 28 Feb. 2018
  • According to the report, quote, one source telling ABC that the draft report explicitly uses the words insubordinate to describe Comey's behavior.
    — Fox News, 6 June 2018
  • Ally went from respectful and sweet to insubordinate and cruel.
    — Mallory Ortberg, Slate Magazine, 28 Sep. 2017
  • Is that -- is that insubordinate or is that responsible?
    — Fox News, 9 Sep. 2018
  • The article, which exposed behavior on the part of McChrystal and his staff that ranged from cavalier to insubordinate, quickly cost McChrystal his post.
    — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 1 June 2017
  • All of us political prisoners were interrogated on our views about what was happening in the Soviet Union, and the guards had orders to shoot any prisoner who was insubordinate.
    — Luo Siling, New York Times, 22 Apr. 2016
  • The investigation focused on what the agency deemed to be unprofessional, insubordinate and profane emails and chat messages to her colleagues, including several in Oregon City.
    — Molly Young, OregonLive.com, 5 May 2018
  • Some said overzealous and occasionally insubordinate — insistent on his vision of correct police work.
    — Adam Carlson, PEOPLE.com, 1 Jan. 2020
  • The hospital is a gothic purgatory where insubordinate inmates suffer a sadistic regime of Electro Convulsive Therapy.
    — Stephen Dalton, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 Aug. 2017
  • Jones ultimately concluded Daeschner was insubordinate and dishonest regarding her oversight of the toddler’s case, according to the investigator’s notes.
    — oregonlive, 30 Nov. 2019
  • Similarly, her students, are merely a collection of insubordinate behaviors, untethered to any context beyond that of the familiar classroom story whose wildlings are transformed by inspirational pedagogy.
    — Jeannette Catsoulis, New York Times, 26 Apr. 2018

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