0 If a group of people are rebellious, they oppose the ideas of the people in authority and plan to change the system, often using force:
1 having strong feelings of disagreement with people in authority, an organization, or a government, esp. showing such feelings through force:
In fact, risk-free rebellious posturing may forestall implementation of effective political challenges.
The behaviour of the kabuki-mono grew rebellious the more tightly the bakufu attempted to control them.
Even so, several interviewees were rebellious teenagers who pursued music in reaction to discouragement.
In addition, these teens do not engage in these rebellious behaviors to any significant extent.
Rebellious servant's good luck about love brought back.
The mass-internment of entire communities (and not just of rebels) was not only meant to prevent the outbreak of further rebellious activities.
The government retaliated by escalating the scale and intensity of violence against rural areas and rebellious military units.
The apparently haphazard results upset the authorities because the buildings were seen as political statements of the rebellious student population of the time.
