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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"
Translations
rebelliously
adv sayrebellisch, aufmüpfig; actrebellisch


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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.
As long as you accept it rebelliously it can only cause you shame.
"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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