Janvert was talking again, his voice coming out clear and precise as though he were trying to explain something to a disobedient child.

He is a pleasant child, but often rowdy, disobedient and rough with others.

He treated her as if she were a disobedient child rather than an adult, and his wife.

Of course, all parents (and teachers) are beset at one time or another by disobedient children.

He carried her as if she were no more than a disobedient child back down the path to the fountain.

It's mostly used as a warning to disobedient or rude children.

He was very spoiled by his mother, and is a disobedient child.

She uses all of her powers to reduce him once more to a disobedient child.

However, he was reported as a mischievous and disobedient child.

"We shouldn't just stand here like disobedient children," Lanier said.