Crossword clues for rebellious
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Rebellious \Re*bel"lious\ (r[-e]*b[e^]l"y[u^]s), a.
Engaged in rebellion; disposed to rebel; of the nature of
rebels or of rebellion; resisting government or lawful
authority by force. ``Thy rebellious crew.'' ``Proud
rebellious arms.''
--Milton. -- Re*bel"lious*ly, adv. --
Re*bel"lious*ness, n.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
a. Showing rebellion.
WordNet
adj. resisting control or authority; "temperamentally rebellious"; "a rebellious crew"
discontented as toward authority [syn: disaffected, ill-affected, malcontent]
participating in organized resistance to a constituted government; "the rebelling confederacy" [syn: rebel(a), rebelling(a)]
Usage examples of "rebellious".
The High King dispatched his new navy to beat off the Andradhians, and commanded his Royal Alchymist to bespeak the hedge-wizards attending rebellious Prince Somarus, warning of nasty consequences if his fighters pressed their attack on Tarn.
Maybe she had a biochip of her own that stopped rebellious remarks from getting through.
However much her heart might bleed over her losses, her vanity as an honest bourgeoise filled her with rebellious thoughts, for she could not admit that she had been in the wrong.
Her thoughts were still rebellious as she settled down to the milking and she was half-way through it when she heard the byre door open.
Swallowing his chagrin, the senior consul thanked Quintus Arrius and asked the House again to issue its Senatus Consultum Ultimum, permit him and his government to move against rebellious troops in Etruria.
Of the King of Heaven and Father of Eternal Light, of the pure World of LIGHT, of the Eternal WORD by which all things were created, of the Seven Mighty Spirits that stand next to the Throne of Light and Omnipotence, and of the glory of those Heavenly Hosts that encompass that Throne, of the Origin of Evil, and the Prince of Darkness, Monarch of the rebellious spirits, enemies of all good, they entertained tenets very similar to those of the Hebrews.
Rian decreed, a dark brow arching cynically at the rebellious expression on her face.
It may be stated here, as a circumstance showing how much on the alert are those who are endeavouring to repress the rebellious movements of the disaffected, that information was received yesterday morning by the authorities, that two sons of Hyland, the notorious pike-maker of Dublin, arrived from that city in Liverpool on Monday last.
They feared that El Dorado might yet reconquer its rebellious colonies and hurl the Distlish into the sea.
Hai Gaon, however, one rebellious voice spoke out against hiding the details of the visionary journey from the common man.
On the pretext that the Khivans had aided the rebellious Kirghiz, the Russians invaded Khiva in 1873 and forced the Khan to sign a treaty putting the Khanate under Russian government.
The Leman was never more peaceable, and I should take it truly in evil part, were the rebellious lake to get into one of its fits of sudden anger with so precious a freight on its bosom.
To argue that because earthly rulers, in their anger and power, send retributive armies against their rebellious subjects, to bring them to judgment, destroy their homes and cities, and lay waste their lands with fire and sword, therefore God, the supreme King, will do so by the whole world, is not to reason logically, but to poetize creatively.
When he refused to obey their summons, they deposed him, declaring him to be disobedient, obstinate, rebellious, a breaker of rules, a perturber of ecclesiastical unity, a perjurer, a schismatic, a hardened heretic, a squanderer of the treasures of the Church, scandalous, simoniacal, pernicious and damnable.
He felt rebellious against the predetermined future Professor Smeth was offering him.