0 past simple and past participle of disobey --
1 to refuse to do something that you are told to do: --
He could not have had these orders, otherwise he would not have disobeyed them.
So many people have disobeyed the law that its legitimacy has been called into question.
The first was that these officers had disobeyed orders.
The regulations are, in the main, being obeyed, and when they are disobeyed strict disciplinary action is taken.
To pass a law that is going to be disobeyed is a bad thing, because it brings the law into disrepute.
Thirdly, the penalties for contempt would never be incurred unless the party had deliberately disobeyed the court.
The question for the court is whether the man disobeyed the order.
I had to decide whether a man who deliberately disobeyed an order should be prosecuted.
