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insubordination
CIDE DICTIONARY
insubordination, n. [Cf. F. insubordination.].
The quality of being insubordinate; disobedience to lawful authority. [1913 Webster]
THESAURUS
insubordination
civil disobedience, disobedience, frowardness, indiscipline, indocility, infraction, infringement, interregnum, intractability, irresponsibility, lawbreaking, lawlessness, license, licentiousness, mutiny, naughtiness, noncompliance, nonconformity, noncooperation, nonobedience, passive resistance, power vacuum, rampant will, recusancy, transgression, unaccountability, uncontrol, uncooperativeness, unduteousness, undutifulness, unrestraint, unsubmissiveness, violation, waywardness, willful disobedience, willfulnessROGET THESAURUS
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Laxity
N laxity, laxness, looseness, slackness, toleration, freedom, anarchy, interregnum, relaxation, loosening, remission, dead letter, brutum fulmen, misrule, license, licentiousness, insubordination, lynch law, nihilism, reign of violence, dethronement, deposition, usurpation, abdication, lax, loose, slack, remiss, weak, relaxed, licensed, reinless, unbridled, anarchical, unauthorized, adespotic.Disobedience
N disobedience, insubordination, contumacy, infraction, infringement, violation, noncompliance, nonobservance, revolt, rebellion, mutiny, outbreak, rising, uprising, insurrection, emeute, riot, tumult, strike, barring out, defiance, mutinousness, mutineering, sedition, treason, high treason, petty treason, misprision of treason, premunire, lese majeste, violation of law, defection, secession, insurgent, mutineer, rebel, revolter, revolutionary, rioter, traitor, quisling, carbonaro, sansculottes, red republican, bonnet rouge, communist, Fenian, frondeur, seceder, secessionist, runagate, renegade, brawler, anarchist, demagogue, Spartacus, Masaniello, Wat Tyler, Jack Cade, ringleader, disobedient, uncomplying, uncompliant, unsubmissive, unruly, ungovernable, breachy, insubordinate, impatient of control, incorrigible, restiff, restive, refractory, contumacious, recusant, recalcitrant, resisting, lawless, mutinous, seditions, insurgent, riotous, unobeyed, unbidden, seditiosissimus quisque ignavus, unthread the rude eye of rebellion.For further exploring for "insubordination" in Webster Dictionary Online