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Unruly   /ənrˈuli/   Listen
Unruly

adjective
(compar. unrulier, superl. unruliest)
1.
Noisy and lacking in restraint or discipline.  Synonyms: boisterous, rambunctious, robustious, rumbustious.  "A social gathering that became rambunctious and out of hand" , "A robustious group of teenagers" , "Beneath the rumbustious surface of his paintings is sympathy for the vulnerability of ordinary human beings" , "An unruly class"
2.
Unwilling to submit to authority.  Synonym: disobedient.
3.
Of persons.  Synonyms: indocile, uncontrollable, ungovernable.






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"Unruly" Quotes from Famous Books



... Sally, and we'll just set a good example while Miss Gifford is searching for that miscreant fire. Come along and get the swaddling clothes for these babes. Aren't they an unruly lot?" and she tossed off her blue cape preparatory for the lugging of couch quilts, pillows and whatever else ...
— Jane Allen: Junior • Edith Bancroft

... satisfaction, even as the Giant Blunderbore locked the children in the coffer after slamming down the lid. Across the scenes and shades of forty years, that picture of the old conductor driving us like two unruly urchins back to school rises, never to ...
— Memoirs • Charles Godfrey Leland

... several persons charged by the sbirro captain with offences against morality. The earnestness of the situation becomes more marked when the gloomy form of Friedrich strides through the inrushing and unruly crowd, commanding silence, and he himself undertakes the hearing of Claudio's case in the sternest manner possible. The implacable judge is already on the point of pronouncing sentence when Isabella enters, and requests, before them all, a private interview with ...
— My Life, Volume I • Richard Wagner

... the sight of his powerlessness had strengthened their independence until it amounted to insubordination. Fortunately, however, before the discontent broke out into open mutiny, a breeze sprang up from the east, and the admiral easily persuaded his unruly crews that it was better to prosecute their voyage than to remain beating about the ...
— The Life of Columbus • Arthur Helps

... your own. And the furniture in it is yours too; so that Herr Steinmarc is your lodger. It is right that you should understand all this; but I think too well of my own child to believe that she will ever on that account be disobedient or unruly." ...
— Linda Tressel • Anthony Trollope


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