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sack, boot (out), turn off, US give (someone) his or her walking
papers, give (someone) a pink slip, can; Slang give (someone)
the (old) heave-ho: Gabney has been dismissed without notice.
2 reject, set aside, repudiate, spurn, discount, disregard, lay
aside, put out of one's mind, think no more of, write off,
banish, have or be done with, scorn, discard, ignore, shrug off;
belittle, diminish, pooh-pooh: She dismissed the story as just
so much gossip. 3 disperse, release, disband, send away: After
returning from the mission, the commando unit was dismissed.
dismissal n. 1 discharge, expulsion, notice, Colloq firing, bounce,
marching orders, Chiefly US and Canadian walking papers, Brit
sack, sacking, one's cards, US pink slip; Slang the (old)
heave-ho , Brit the boot: Cholmondley got his dismissal
yesterday. 2 cancellation, adjournment, discharge, end,
release; cong‚: The judge ordered dismissal of the charge of
murder.
disobedient
adj. 1 insubordinate, unruly, naughty, mischievous, bad,
ill-behaved, badly behaved, obstreperous, unmanageable,
refractory, fractious, ungovernable, uncomplying, unsubmissive,
wayward, non-compliant, incompliant, intractable, defiant;
delinquent, derelict, disregardful, remiss, undutiful:
Disobedient children will be kept in after school. 2 contrary,
perverse, wilful, headstrong, stubborn, recalcitrant, obdurate,
obstinate, contumacious, wayward, cross-grained, opposed,
mutinous, rebellious, revolting, anarchic, Colloq pigheaded: We
cannot tolerate disobedient recruits.
disobey v. defy, break, contravene, flout, disregard, ignore, resist,
oppose, violate, transgress, overstep, go counter to, fly in the
face of, infringe, thumb one's nose at, snap one's fingers at,
Brit cock a snook at; mutiny, rebel, revolt, strike: You cannot
play because you disobeyed the rules. If anyone disobeys, throw
him in irons.
disorder n. 1 disarray, confusion, chaos, disorderliness,
disorganization, untidiness, mess, muddle, jumble, hash,
mishmash, tangle, hotchpotch or US and Canadian also hodgepodge,
derangement, shambles, clutter: After the party, the place was
in terrible disorder. 2 tumult, riot, disturbance, pandemonium,
upheaval, ferment, fuss, unrest, uproar, hubbub, hullabaloo,