0 (of a person) not willing to obey orders from people in authority, or (of actions and speech, etc.) showing that you are not willing to obey orders -- （人）不服从的，不顺从的；（言行）违抗命令的
an insubordinate child 不听话的孩子
Its sovereignty, in these more distant manifestations, was partial, impeded, divided; it was shared with subaltern governments or insubordinate companies.
For the seigneury, the issue was no longer one of unruly and insubordinate subjects who circumvented his authority.
The intendant retaliated quickly, arresting some of these "insubordinate" men.
However, most contemporary accounts of navvies tended to stigmatize them as an insubordinate, unruly, and ungovernable class of men.
Lee (2004, 2005) notes that the semantically inverted superlative form illest is used in insubordinate reaction to negative publicity.
Appropriate disciplinary measures have been and are being taken against those who have been guilty of disorderly and insubordinate conduct.
If he has been unreasonable and insubordinate to the foreman that is fair enough.
Secondly, the risk of a nuclear exchange being triggered in error by an insubordinate or maverick custodian would be eliminated.
