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Unruly Common

Unruly has 4 different meanings across 1 category:

Adjective

Definitions
Adjective
1

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"

2

unwilling to submit to authority

"unruly teenagers"

3

incapable of being controlled

"the little boy's parents think he is spirited, but his teacher finds him unruly"

4

Wild; uncontrolled.

Example Sentences
"a boisterous crowd" adjective
"a social gathering that became rambunctious and out of hand" adjective
"a robustious group of teenagers" adjective
"beneath the rumbustious surface of his paintings is sympathy for the vulnerability of ordinary human beings" adjective
"an unruly class" adjective
"unruly teenagers" adjective
"the little boy's parents think he is spirited, but his teacher finds him unruly" adjective
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Rhyming Words
uly ruly july duly pauly truly aguly unduly raguly nebuly masculy barruly disruly untruly mid july yours truly trituberculy fourth of july well and truly emphasize something unduly
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