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What does insubordination mean?

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Noun
  1. The quality or state of being insubordinate; disobedience to lawful authority; specifically, an employee's failure or refusal to comply with a request or an assignment given by his/her supervisor.
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The dean thereupon charged the professor with insubordination and persuaded the central administration to initiate dismissal proceedings.
Within a remarkably short time, it was realized that the family was failing to control the impiety and insubordination of the younger generation.
Roni Mahler, guesting as the Countess, is diamantine as A Dragon Lady, all knowing, all seeing, reeking with impatience over insubordination.
I don't need any more of your insubordination, young man, and I certainly don't need your sass.
A few days later, she says, she and a co-worker were both dismissed on the grounds of insubordination.
In September 1871, Bishop Shiel returned from Rome and excommunicated her for alleged insubordination.

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