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Discover LudwigThe word "disobeyed" is correct and usable in written English
It is used to refer to someone who has not followed an instruction, rule, or law. For example, "The teenager disobeyed his father and stayed out late."
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disobeyed
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Past of disobey
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An officer ordered him to move to the side of the road and, when the man disobeyed, pepper-sprayed him.
At seminars with members of Germany's border police, he reports, heated debate arises over such questions as when expulsion orders should be disobeyed.
If he had disobeyed, they would have killed him anyway.The rehabilitation centre provides children and adults with vocational training, and education in maths, computer science and languages, including Sinhalese, the tongue of the majority Sinhala Buddhists they had once been coached to kill.
It said that the way Deutsche treated some of its stakes in other companies disobeyed international accounting standards (IAS), which the bank claimed to follow.
Her affair was with the husband of a woman in the services, junior to her in rank; she lied about the affair; she then disobeyed an order to end it.
The group had repeatedly disobeyed al-Qaeda's chief, Ayman Zawahiri, defying his order to leave Syria, where Jabhat al-Nusra, another affiliate of al-Qaeda, is also fighting.This is not the first time the Iraqi chapter of al-Qaeda has angered the leadership.
The government disobeyed the order and had Mrs Arroyo arrested.
But just as man, as the Bible tells it, disobeyed God and paid the penalty, so now his own inventions seek to oust their creator.
But the point is that ever since the beginning of the Clinton administration, if not longer, a large segment of American movement conservatives have been working to convince each other, and their constituency, that any governing institution controlled by those who do not share their ideology is illegitimate and should be disobeyed or overthrown.
To Nitze's chagrin, the apprentice had disobeyed the sorcerer.Mr Thompson faces several challenges with his parallel story.
The militants, it was rumoured, meant to cut off the inky forefinger of anyone thus marked as having disobeyed their injunction.
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