disobedient• He is a pleasant child, but often rowdy, disobedient and rough with others.• Parents who do not detect an intermittent hearing loss can become irritable and controlling and label their child as disobedient and unresponsive.• a disobedient child• Ever since, man is seen as a disobedientcreature, who is sinful.• The nonpartisan, nonviolent and civilly disobedient El Barzon has been hit with massarrests of its leaders.• Olwyn is noisy, disobedient, has tantrums when things do not go her own way, and is violent towards Katie.• If ever I felt I had been rude to her or disobedient, I always felt ashamed.• Lee stood before her like a disobedientschoolboy.• She said that if we were disobedient she would send us home immediately.• The disobedientyouth has been injected with an experimental drug, though of course his tactilesensations aren't blunted.