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[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
unruly \unruly\
   see ruly.
see also:
ruly 
[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
unruly \unrul"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.
   1913 webster

         but the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil,
         full of deadly poison.                   --james iii.
                                                  8.
   1913 webster
see also:
unrulier unruliest ruly 
[3] : WordNet (r) 2.0
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
     also: unruliest, unrulier
see also:
boisterous rambunctious robustious rumbustious disobedient indocile 
uncontrollable ungovernable unruliest unrulier 
[4] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
108 moby thesaurus words for "unruly":
   abandoned, anarchial, anarchic, anarchistic, antinomian,
   beyond control, boisterous, breachy, chaotic, contrary,
   contumacious, defiant, disobedient, disorderly, disorganized,
   fractious, froward, go-go, hard, headstrong, immoderate,
   impatient of control, incontinent, incorrigible, indocile,
   indomitable, indulgent, insubordinate, insuppressible, intemperate,
   intractable, irrepressible, lawless, lax, licentious, loose,
   mutinous, naughty, nihilistic, nonrestrictive, obstreperous,
   ornery, out of control, out of hand, permissive, perverse, raffish,
   rambunctious, rampageous, rampant, raucous, rebellious,
   recalcitrant, refractory, reinless, resistant, resisting, restive,
   revolutionary, riotous, rowdy, rowdyish, ruffianly, rumbustious,
   shrewish, stormy, stubborn, syndicalistic, tempestuous, termagant,
   terrorist, tough, tumultuous, turbulent, unbiddable, unbridled,
   unchecked, uncoerced, uncompelled, unconstrained, uncontrollable,
   uncontrolled, uncooperative, uncurbed, undisciplined, unforced,
   ungovernable, ungoverned, uninhibited, unmalleable, unmanageable,
   unmastered, unmeasured, unmoldable, unmuzzled, unreined,
   unrepressed, unreserved, unrestrained, unrestrictive, unsubdued,
   unsubmissive, unsuppressed, untoward, violent, wanton, wayward,
   wild





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