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Unruly

Unruly Meaning & Definition
Unruly Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Unruly?

[adj] of persons; "the little boy's parents think he is spirited, but his teacher finds him unruly"
[adj] noisy and lacking in restraint or discipline; "a boisterous crowd"; "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"
[adj] unwilling to submit to authority; "unruly teenagers"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Unruly: boisterous | disobedient | disorderly | indocile | insubordinate | rambunctious | robustious | rumbustious | uncontrollable | ungovernable | unmanageable

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Unruly In Webster's Dictionary

\Un*rul"y\, a. [Compar. {Unrulier}, superl. {Unruliest}.] [Pref. un- not + rule. Cf. {Ruly}.] Not submissive to rule; disregarding restraint; disposed to violate; turbulent; ungovernable; refractory; as, an unruly boy; unruly boy; unruly conduct. But the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison. --James iii. 8.

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