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rebelliously

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re·bel·lious  (r-blys)
adj.
1. Prone to or participating in a rebellion: rebellious students.
2. Of, relating to, or characteristic of a rebel or rebellion: rebellious behavior.
3. Resisting treatment or control; unruly. See Synonyms at insubordinate.
re·bellious·ly adv.
re·bellious·ness n.
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Adv.1.rebelliously - in a rebellious manner; "he rejected her words rebelliously"
contumaciously, defiantly
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rebelliously
adv say → rebellisch, aufmüpfig; act → rebellisch


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Twenty years of unwilling apprenticeship had been required to make my system rebelliously tolerant of alcohol, to make me, in the heart and the deeps of me, desirous of alcohol.
John Barleycorn by London, Jack View in context
As long as you accept it rebelliously it can only cause you shame.
Of Human Bondage by Maugham, W. Somerset View in context
"It's a hard thing, to be a marble statue," he thought, rebelliously, "and I'm not going to stand it.
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