[
UK
/ɹɪbˈɛlɪəsnəs/
]
[ US /ɹəˈbɛɫiəsnəs/ ]
[ US /ɹəˈbɛɫiəsnəs/ ]
NOUN
- an insubordinate act
- intentionally contemptuous behavior or attitude
How To Use rebelliousness In A Sentence
- Mike finally seems to be growing out of his rebelliousness.
- Where else would a self-harmer go to buy their off-the-peg rebelliousness? Hot Topic: You're So Vein
- Its fugitive Dalai Lama and his "government-in-exile" have found refuge in India since 1959—and China blames him, and by extension his hosts, for the continued rebelliousness in his homeland.
- Strikingly apolitical and averse to the urgent rebelliousness of others, emos are happy to admit that they have no ideology beyond insisting on their right to do what they want.
- The core dynamic in each of these cases was hypothesized to be rebelliousness and a protest against overbearing parents.
- So, this big stage that we were put on under this bright spotlight was the only place I had to play out the rebelliousness that I think everybody goes through at some point to one degree or another.
- There's a difference between rebelliousness and independence.
- Nonetheless, we know all to well that the reality of sin and human rebelliousness disrupts this original design of male-female partnership intended by God from creation.
- For all its emphasis on a mileu characterized by rebelliousness (however directed in recognizable channels) and noncomformity, The Pornographic Flabbergasted Emus is rather well-controlled and ultimately fairly conventional in its movement toward a kind of rounded-off closure. Narrative Strategies
- The one indispensable preliminary was the change in man from rebelliousness to childlike trust and willingness to obey.