Advanced Vocabulary - Disobedient and Uncooperative

disobedient adjective
deliberately doing the opposite of what someone in authority has told you to do, or deliberately not obeying rules.

defiant adjective
refusing to obey a person or rule.

lawless adjective
not willing to obey the law, especially by using violence.

unmanageable adjective
used about someone whose behaviour you cannot control or influence.

uncontrollable adjective
someone who is uncontrollable behaves badly and refuses to do what other people tell them.

recalcitrant adjective
(formal) refusing to obey orders.

insubordinate adjective
(formal) not obeying, or not showing respect to, someone who has authority over you.

mutinous adjective
refusing to accept someone else’s authority and obey them.

mutinous adjective
used about people’s behaviour.

 

defiantly adverb
disobediently adverb
uncontrollably adverb

 

 

See also:

To obey a law or rule	Common Prepositions
Obedience and Cooperation	Common Phrasal Verbs
Obedient and Cooperative	Common Cliché words
Disobedience and Failure to Cooperate	Thematic list of Idioms
To Fail to Obey a Rule	Irregular Verbs list

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Advanced Vocabulary - To Fail to Obey a Rule, Law or Command

break verb
to fail to obey a rule or law.

defy verb
to refuse to obey someone or something.

disobey verb
to deliberately do the opposite of what someone in authority has told you to do, or deliberately not obey a rule.

flout verb
to deliberately refuse to obey a rule or custom.

breach verb
(formal) to break a law, rule, or agreement.

contravene verb
(formal) to do something that is not allowed by a rule, law, or agreement.

challenge verb
to refuse to accept someone’s authority.

infringe verb
to break a law, rule, or agreement.

offend verb
(formal) to break a law or rule, or to do something against your principles.

violate verb
to do something that is in opposition to a law, agreement, principle etc.

revolt verb
to say that you will not accept someone’s authority or leadership.

default verb
(legal) to fail to appear in a court of law when you have been ordered to.

derogate from
(formal) to fail to act according to something as you were expected to or as you agreed.

offend verb
to commit a crime.

jack up
(Australian informal) to refuse to obey instructions.

be a law unto yourself
to refuse to behave like everyone else, or to believe you can do whatever you want to.

beat the system
to achieve what you want by breaking rules or by finding clever ways of working within them.

overstep the mark
to do or say something that makes people angry because it breaks a rule or is not acceptable.

step out of line
(informal) to break the rules, or to do something wrong.

drive a coach and horses through something
(British) to completely ignore a law or agreement and stop it being effective.

 

 

See also:

To obey a law or rule	Common Prepositions
Obedience and Cooperation	Common Phrasal Verbs
Obedient and Cooperative	Common Cliché words
Disobedience and Failure to Cooperate	Thematic list of Idioms
Disobedient and Uncooperative	Irregular Verbs list

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Advanced Vocabulary - Disobedience and Failure to Cooperate

breach noun
a failure to follow a law or rule.

contravention noun
formal the action of doing something that is not allowed by a rule, law, or agreement.

contravention noun
(formal) something that is not allowed by a rule, law, or agreement.

defiance noun
refusal to obey a person or rule.

disobedience noun
someone’s behaviour when they do not obey orders or rules.

infraction noun
(formal) a situation in which someone breaks a law or rule.

insubordination noun
(formal) behaviour in which you refuse to obey or show respect for someone who has authority over you.

non-compliance noun
(formal) failure to follow an official rule or obey a law.

non-cooperation noun
a policy of not doing the things that someone wants you to do, especially as a type of protest.

non-observance noun
failure to obey rules.

rebellion noun
a refusal to obey your leader, especially in politics.

wrong noun
behaviour that is morally wrong or that breaks a rule.

against someone’s wishes advice
if someone does something against your wishes advice , they do it even though you do not want them to do it advise them not to do it.

in default
(formal) the position of someone who has not done something that they were officially ordered to do.

 

defaulter noun
infringement noun
rebelliousness noun

 

 

See also:

To obey a law or rule	Common Prepositions
Obedience and Cooperation	Common Phrasal Verbs
Obedient and Cooperative	Common Cliché words
To fail to Obey a rule	Thematic list of Idioms
Disobedient and Uncooperative	Irregular Verbs list

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Advanced Vocabulary - Obedient and Cooperative

obedient adjective
doing what a person, law, or rule says that you must do.

cooperative adjective
cooperative people are willing to do what you ask them.

law-abiding adjective
a law-abiding person obeys the law.

good adjective
willing to obey and behave in a socially correct way.

dutiful adjective
(formal) careful to do things that other people ask or expect you to do.

submissive adjective
willing to do what other people tell you to do without arguing.

compliant adjective
too willing to do what other people want or too willing to accept their opinions.

biddable adjective
someone who is biddable does what people tell them without arguing or complaining.

legalistic adjective
(showing disapproval) obeying the law in a very strict and exact way.

servile adjective
(showing disapproval) someone who is servile is so willing to serve or obey other people that you have no respect for them.

blindly adverb
if you obey or support someone blindly, you do it without thinking for yourself whether what you are doing is right.

canonical adjective
following the generally accepted rules of something.

subservient adjective
too willing to obey other people.

slavish adjective
always doing or following what other people say or do without thinking very much for yourself.

orderly adjective
well-behaved, or well-controlled.

yielding adjective
willing to do what other people want you to do.

compliant adjective
designed to follow a particular law, system, or set of instructions.

responsive adjective
willing to reply to a question or to talk about something.

tame adjective
someone who is tame obeys other people or is afraid of them.

good adjective
willing to obey all the rules of a particular religion or organization.

Stepford adjective
doing what other people want without complaining or asking questions.

cooperatively adverb
obediently adverb
dutifully adverb
grovelling adjective
legalistically adverb
slavishly adverb
submissively adverb
tamely adverb

 

 

See also:

To obey a law or rule	Common Prepositions
Obedience and Cooperation	Common Phrasal Verbs
Disobedience and Failure to Cooperate	Common Cliché words
To fail to Obey a rule	Thematic list of Idioms
Disobedient and Uncooperative	Irregular Verbs list

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Advance Vocabulary - Obedience and Cooperation

adherence noun
(formal) the action of continuing to obey a rule, law, agreement etc.

complaisance noun
(very formal) a way of behaving in which you try to please other people.

compliance noun
(formal) the practice of obeying a law, rule, or request.

cooperation noun
a situation in which people or organizations work together to achieve a result that will benefit all of them.

give-and-take noun
a situation in which people or groups who want different things each give some things to the others and get some things from the others.

integrity noun
the quality of behaving according to the rules and standards of your job or profession.

legalism noun
the fact that someone obeys the laws in a very strict and exact way.

obedience noun
the practice of doing what someone tells you to do, or of obeying a law or rule.

observance noun
the practice of obeying a law or rule, or of doing something according to a tradition.

observation noun
the practice of obeying a law, rule, or custom.

opiate noun
(formal) something that tends to prevent people from having their own opinions and makes them quiet and easily controlled.

opium noun
something that tends to prevent people from having their own opinions and makes them quiet and easily controlled.

order noun
the fact of obeying the rules of a formal meeting, for example in a parliament.

order noun
a situation in which people obey the law and follow the accepted rules of social behaviour.

two-way street noun
a situation in which two people or two groups of people need to work together.

at someone’s bidding
if you do something at someone’s bidding, you do it because they ask or tell you to.

at someone’s insistence
because someone has said that something must happen.

at someone’s invitation at the invitation of someone
if you do something at someone’s invitation, you do it when they ask or invite you.

at someone’s request suggestion invitation etc
because someone has asked you to do something suggested something etc.

at the behest of someone
(very formal) because someone has asked for something or said it must happen.

by the book
correctly, following all the rules or systems for doing something in a strict way.

by the numbers
(mainly American) in a way that is exactly according to the rules.

give and take
(informal) if there is give and take between people, each person allows the other to get something that they want.

(just) say the word
(spoken) used for telling someone that you are ready to do something for them as soon as they ask.

there’s no such thing as a free lunch
used for saying that people cannot get something good without working hard or giving something in exchange.

will do
(spoken) used for telling someone that you will do what they have asked.

without question
if someone does something without question, they do it without asking any questions.

servility noun
obsequiousness, obedience.

slavishness noun
submissiveness noun

 

 

See also:

To obey a law or rule	Common Prepositions
Obedient and Cooperative	Common Phrasal Verbs
Disobedience and Failure to Cooperate	Common Cliché words
To fail to Obey a rule	Thematic list of Idioms
Disobedient and Uncooperative	Irregular Verbs list

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Advance Vocabulary - To Obey a Law or Rule, or to Accept Someone's Authority

obey verb
to do what a law or a person says that you must do.

observe verb
to accept and obey something such as a rule or an agreement.

comply verb
to obey a rule or law, or to do what someone asks you to do.

respect verb
to obey a rule, law etc.

abide by
to follow a rule, decision, or instruction.

adhere to
to obey a rule, law, agreement etc.

follow verb
to obey an order, or to do what someone has advised you to do.

conform verb
to obey something such as a rule or law.

keep to
to follow an agreement or a rule, by doing what you should do or what you said you would do.

recognize verb
to accept the authority or status of someone or something.

 

 

See also:

Obedience and Cooperation	Common Prepositions
Obedient and Cooperative	Common Phrasal Verbs
Disobedience and Failure to Cooperate	Common Cliché words
To fail to Obey a rule	Thematic list of Idioms
Disobedient and Uncooperative	Irregular Verbs list

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