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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The state or condition of being unruly; disregard of restraint; turbulence: as, the unruliness of men or of their passions.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun Quality or state unruly.

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  • noun The state of being unruly.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun the trait of being prone to disobedience and lack of discipline

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Examples

  • Conceived as delimiting a verbal habitus or ethos, verse instigates a traverse whose unruliness is grooved deep into the genesis of phrasing — and of its evoked and self-razed alternatives — rather than merely awaiting some transgressive gesture on the reader's part.

    Phonemanography: Romantic to Victorian 2008

  • And this we command in absolute terms, that you see to it that whichever part of our realm the direction of your march may cause you to pass through you proceed to the aforesaid place in good order and without unruliness, that is, that you. presume to take nothing other than grass, firewood and water.

    De Re Militari: The Society for Medieval Military History » Medieval Warfare in the reign of Charlemagne 2009

  • As power has shifted from the tribes to more affluent, Westernized and urban Jordanians of Palestinian descent, some analysts worry the unruliness is a sign of widening discontent with the country's establishment.

    SFGate: Top News Stories Ranya Kadri 2011

  • As power has shifted from the tribes to more affluent, Westernized and urban Jordanians of Palestinian descent, some analysts worry the unruliness is a sign of widening discontent with the country's establishment.

    SFGate: Top News Stories Ranya Kadri 2011

  • One of the most significant other violations that recurs is unruliness, which is when a parent calls police because they can't control their child, Ballard said.

    unknown title 2009

  • The congressman worked hard to prevent the kind of unruliness seen at other town halls around the country.

    Blue Dog: 'Excellent idea' to start over on health care reform 2009

  • I am sitting here reading a speech by a Grammar School HeadMaster in 1948 slamming the 'sheer idleness and sloppiness' of the young, their 'lack of moral fibre', their 'unruliness'.

    On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008

  • Referring to the striker's actions, he said: "This kind of unruliness must be condemned."

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1994

  • "unruliness" of a minor (eureka, now we understand why CAIR demanded a guilty plea in exchange for a meaningless deal with the kuffar) and a second charge of "interference with custody," which carries a sentence of six months to a year.

    Jihad Monitor 2010

  • However, given the unruliness of the clan, they aren't as quick to overlook it.

    VIDEO: Octomom Brings Babies, Bedlam to Today 2011

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