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rebellious

 adjective
     
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re‧bel‧lious
1 deliberately not obeying people in authority or rules of behaviour:
rebellious teenagers
He's always had a rebellious streak (=a tendency to rebel).
2PPGPM fighting against the government of your own country:
rebellious minorities
—rebelliously adverb
—rebelliousness noun [uncountable]
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