unruly
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4.3
- adjective
- /ʌnˈruːli/
:
alborotado
- He was polite, but somehow he makes me feel like an unruly schoolboy.
- an unruly crowd
- unruly behavior
- control unruly crowds
When the brothers come back, they're pretty unruly, tough guy types.
- When the brothers come back, they're pretty unruly, tough guy types.
- Let's just say you've got an unruly child at school.
- Paris was an unruly medieval city.
- So they are already adopting the wrong way to deal with this unruly child.
- But also, he's got this completely unruly congressional caucus himself.
- Alley was an unruly place, and the news that spread wasn't always true.
- It, it's completely irregular, unruly, chaotic.
- That we are, no matter how situated politically, we are coping with an unruly torrent of events.
- And as you're pointing out, these places are often these online communities are often seen as these unruly sort of, you know, anything goes atmospheres.
- You're good mostly black and white with monochrome vision, and you've got this somewhat unruly situation with reafferant sensing.
Examples
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Paris was an unruly medieval city.
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We pull back to see an unruly mob of newsies gathered by the statue.
Fiction book (1992) -
Not the unruly child who could not sit still for even a moment.
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Because horses can be kind of unruly and they can run.
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Because of that unruly passenger in coach.
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So you better stop being unruly and toe the line.
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My poor head was simply whirled around by my unruly heart.
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I could see the back of her hair, wild and unruly like a squirrel's trail.
Fiction book (1993) -
Her hair was long and brown and splashed in an unruly cascade about her face and neck.
Fiction book (1990) -
The teacher struggled to maintain order in the classroom due to the unruly students who kept talking and moving around.
Synonyms
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5.8
Causing trouble that interrupts normal activity
47
4.9
Not able to be held back
34
4.4
Behaving badly and not following rules
34
3.6
Making a lot of noise and disturbing other people
18
4.6
Unable to control yourself or follow rules
18
4.7
Loud and energetic, like a happy crowd or party
13
7.5
Very noisy and full of energy that is hard to control
12
8.1
Refusing to follow orders or respect someone in charge
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8.1
Not willing to follow rules or accept control
11
4.0
Refuses to obey rules or people in charge
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9.9
Being hard to control and easily annoyed, often causing trouble
4
8.6
Very difficult to control, for example a crowd or class
3
7.3
Energetic and rough, not following usual rules
3
9.9
Very noisy and hard to control, like a loud crowd
2
7.9
Noisy violent behavior in public that is out of control
1
9.9
Hard to control or train and does not obey people in charge
1
9.9
Being noisy and energetic without control
Loud and lively in a rough, out of control way
Antonyms
How Unruly
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word unruly comes from the prefix un- meaning 'not' and the same root as rule, meaning 'order' or 'control'. So, unruly describes people or things that are 'not under control', like hair that won't behave or a noisy crowd.