rebelliousness

But actually, I think it was rebelliousness more than true confidence.

After a moment of rebelliousness, John shrugged and sat down.

If that was true, she wondered when she'd get this rebelliousness out of her system for good.

If his rebelliousness was going to flare again it would be now.

Small sensed a general air of rebelliousness among the prisoners.

You don't seem to understand the consequences of your rebelliousness.

Critics of the tobacco industry agree that rebelliousness and other forces are at work.

But he says nothing to indicate that his decision to become a painter was born of rebelliousness.

For all her rebelliousness, she'd led, overall, a very sheltered life.

This week's clashes are just the latest in a neighborhood with a history of rebelliousness.

The thing to remember about color is that it typically signifies a rebelliousness.

Don't assume that rebelliousness toward religion is a major problem.

But those groups were interested in building their own strength and fanned the rebelliousness.

Rebelliousness has always been one of my better tricks.

For most students in the 90's, rebelliousness, if it exists at all, has been largely a style statement.

If necessary, you can punish me for my rebelliousness.

In fact it made her rebelliousness seem a trifle foolish and out of place.

We live, however, in the grip of a music culture that venerates rebelliousness.

Self-defeating behavior can sometimes be rooted in fear rather than rebelliousness.

The boy's face hardened, doing its best to pretend not to care, but the girl's rebelliousness collapsed at once.

Muhammad gave his permission that the men could hit their wives in cases of rebelliousness.

I liked your rebelliousness because I was a rebel, too.

The daughter's rebelliousness peaked at age 7, when she set fire to her bedroom curtains one morning, then went off to school.

Yet how dangerous a dilemma her rebelliousness had created.