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adjective
- 1. disorderly and disruptive and not amenable to discipline or control: "a group of unruly children"
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Unruly means not submissive to government or control, and often implies waywardness or turbulence of behavior. Learn more about the synonyms, examples, history, and usage of unruly from Merriam-Webster dictionary.
Unruly means difficult to control or manage, or not obeying rules. It can also describe hair that is hard to keep tidy. See how to use unruly in sentences and find synonyms and related words.
Unruly means not submissive or conforming to rule; ungovernable; turbulent; intractable; refractory; lawless. See the origin, synonym study, and example sentences of unruly on Dictionary.com.
Unruly means difficult to control or manage, or hard to keep neat. Learn how to use this adjective in different contexts, such as people, hair, or crowds, with examples and related words.
When someone is unruly, they've thrown the rules out of the window. An unruly person refuses to obey authority, while an unruly piece of hair might refuse to stay inside a clip. And if a cat herder had trouble corralling kittens for a parade, there would be unruly kittens everywhere!
Unruly, intractable, recalcitrant, refractory describe persons or things that resist management or control. Unruly suggests persistently disorderly behavior or character in persons or things: an unruly child, peevish and willful; wild, unruly hair.
If you describe people, especially children, as unruly, you mean that they behave badly and are difficult to control.
Unruly means difficult or impossible to discipline, control, or rule. It can also mean wild, uncontrolled, or disorderly. See synonyms, antonyms, word forms, and examples of unruly.
adjective. /ʌnˈruːli/ difficult to control or manage synonym disorderly. an unruly class. unruly behaviour. unruly hair (= difficult to keep looking neat) He struggled hard to control his unruly emotions. The police were attacked by an unruly mob. There have been complaints about her unruly behaviour. Oxford Collocations Dictionary. Word Origin.
Unruly means difficult or impossible to discipline, control, or rule, or difficult to keep in place or in order. Find the origin, usage, and translations of unruly in various languages and dictionaries.
