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Disruptive   /dɪsrˈəptɪv/   Listen
Disruptive

adjective
1.
Characterized by unrest or disorder or insubordination.  Synonyms: riotous, troubled, tumultuous, turbulent.  "Riotous times" , "These troubled areas" , "The tumultuous years of his administration" , "A turbulent and unruly childhood"






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"Disruptive" Quotes from Famous Books



... experiments in shadow photography made thus far in America are those of Dr. William J. Morton of New York, who was the first in this country to use the disruptive discharges of static electricity in connection with the Roentgen discovery, and to demonstrate that shadow pictures may be successfully taken without the use of Crookes tubes. It was the well-known photographic properties of ordinary lightning that made Dr. Morton suspect that cathode ...
— McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 5, April, 1896 • Various

... the Carlovingian kings and emperors gave room for the speedy development of disruptive tendencies in a territory so extensive and so little consolidated. The duchies and counties of the eighth and ninth centuries were still official magistracies, the holders of which discharged the functions of imperial judges or generals. Such officers were of course men whom the kings could trust, ...
— The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 5 • Various



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