Hypertext Webster Gateway: "unruly"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Unruly \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.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

unruly
adj 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" [syn: {boisterous}, {rambunctious},
{robustious}, {rumbustious}]
2: unwilling to submit to authority; "unruly teenagers" [syn: {disobedient}]
3: of persons; "the little boy's parents think he is spirited,
but his teacher finds him unruly" [syn: {indocile}, {uncontrollable},
{ungovernable}]


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