adj
(Hinduism, Buddhism) unrighteous; contrary to universal law
n
The rejection for employment, placement, or promotion of a significantly higher percentage of a protected class, when compared with a non-protected class.
n
(euphemistic) Disobedience, a disinclination to obey.
adj
Refusing to proceed or cooperate.
n
The situation where a person's valid warnings or concerns are dismissed or disbelieved.
adj
(law) Willfully disobedient to the summons or orders of a court.
n
Alternative form of contumacy [(chiefly Christianity and law) Disobedience, resistance to authority.]
n
(chiefly Christianity and law) Disobedience, resistance to authority.
v
(rare, nonstandard) Synonym of disconfirm
v
(fandom slang, video games) A confirmation of a character's lack of playable status.
n
The feeling, or spirit of being defiant.
n
Refusal to admit responsibility for wrongdoing.
n
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see denial, of, service.
n
(nonstandard) Something that is desired, but not absolutely required.
n
A departure from the correct way of acting.
n
(obsolete) Mistrust, distrust, lack of confidence in someone or something.
n
The act or concept of not accepting.
n
(informal) A disadvantage.
n
Alienation; loss of loyalty.
n
A denial of knowledge, relationship, and/or responsibility towards something (or someone).
n
A drawback or disadvantage.
n
(obsolete) Failure or refusal to comply.
n
Tension or strife resulting from a lack of agreement; dissension.
n
(law) Failure or refusal of the drawee or intended acceptor of a negotiable instrument, such as a bill of exchange or note, to accept it or, if it is accepted, to pay and retire it.
n
Obsolete form of disobedience. [Refusal to obey.]
n
A disobliging act; an offence.
adj
(obsolete) Disadvantageous.
adj
(law) Deviating from the requirements of the law, but without a lack of legal authority, thus not illegal.
n
Deliberate shirking of one's official duties.
n
(obsolete) Freedom; liberty.
n
An interruption in the performance of a mitzvah, rendering it invalid.
v
(obsolete) To be incapable of combining; to disagree or differ.
n
Violation of the rights of another person or people.
n
(psychology) A condition, where one remembers and itemizes slights, imagined or real.
adj
(obsolete) Not obedient; disobedient.
adj
(obsolete, law) Contrary to one's natural obligation or duty, as of a testament by which a child is unjustly deprived of inheritance.
n
(obsolete) insecurity; danger
n
Lack of subjection or obedience.
n
Lack of submission; disobedience.
n
The quality or state of being insubordinate; disobedience to lawful authority; specifically, an employee's failure or refusal to comply with a request or an assignment given by his/her supervisor.
adj
(of a person) Avoiding interference in other people's affairs; choosing to live and let live.
n
Freedom to deviate deliberately from normally applicable rules or practices (especially in behaviour or speech).
adj
exhibiting malapropism
adj
Subject to marginalization.
n
A downside or disadvantage.
n
The instance or practice of not complying with a law, custom, command or rule.
n
Refusal or withholding of assents; prohibition, veto
adj
(sociology) Lacking benefits or advantages in society.
n
(law, uncountable) The breach of a duty of care: the failure to exercise a standard of care that a reasonable person would have in a similar situation.
adj
(law) Culpable due to negligence.
n
Lack of obeisance or failure to obey; disobedience
n
(law) An exception taken against a plaintiff in a cause, when he is unable legally to commence a suit.
n
(law) The intentional failure to perform an official duty or legal requirement.
n
Lack of obedience; failure to obey.
n
The failure to observe a custom, or to conform with a law
n
Deviation from moral rectitude.
n
A feeling of being oppressed.
n
noncompliance with an authority as a form of protest against injustice, as by fasting, peaceful demonstration, or refusal to cooperate
n
A person who is recalcitrant.
n
Alternative form of recusancy [Obstinate refusal or opposition.]
n
Obstinate refusal or opposition.
adj
Refusing; denying; negative.
adj
Having a tendency to reject the plans or proposals of others.
n
(obsolete) Resistance, opposition.
adj
(now rare) Opposing; offering resistance (to).
n
(obsolete) Resistance, struggle.
n
A person who resists; especially a member of a resistance movement.
n
A person who respects someone or something; usually used in the negative; "X is no respecter of Y".
n
(figuratively) A resistance to accepting a new idea or a change in the way things are done.
n
The refusal of children or teens to go to school because of some sort of emotional distress. This can be caused by separation or social anxiety disorders, depression, or a phobia.
n
An undeserved right that grants a demographic an unfair advantage over the majority.
n
(idiomatic) A refusal to cooperate.
n
The imposition of a taboo.
n
A crime committed by having unorthodox, unofficial, controversial or socially unacceptable thoughts.
n
An individual who transgresses, or breaks social rules.
n
the act or process of unchoosing; that which is unchosen or rejected; rejection
n
(law) A doctrine of equity under which a court of law will not provide equitable relief to a party whose own conduct has been improper.
n
(obsolete) discreditableness
adj
That which ought not to be done; illegal; unjustified.
n
(law) unjust enrichment.
n
(rare, nonstandard) Absence or lack of favor.
n
(law) a benefit gained at another's expense without legally justifiable grounds, such as one gained by mistake.
adj
That does not obey; disobedient.
n
An act that is prohibited by law, yet which neither directly harms nor violates the rights of any specific person, although some people may claim it harms society as a whole.
n
Unfair judgement in which an entity gives preferential treatment to its own forces over those of a defeated enemy.
n
An infraction or a failure to follow a rule.
adj
(law) In judicial reviews of administrative decisions: being unreasonable to the extent that no reasonable person or authority would make such a decision.
adj
Unauthorized by the proper authorities.
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