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Synonyms for unruliness


Grammar : Noun
Spell : uhn-roo-lee
Phonetic Transcription : ʌnˈru li

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Définition of unruliness

Origin :
  • c.1400, from un- (1) "not" + obsolete ruly "amenable to rule." Related: Unruliness.
  • noun disorderliness
Example sentences :
  • So did a child, threatened for his unruliness with the revelation of the man with two heads.
  • Extract from : « The Children » by Alice Meynell
  • Unruliness must have been tamed and regular attention secured.
  • Extract from : « Outlines of Educational Doctrine » by John Frederick Herbart
  • He had shut his eyes to the man's unruliness and his daughter's intervention to free him; but now he was without pity.
  • Extract from : « The World For Sale, Complete » by Gilbert Parker
  • A spirit of unruliness diffused itself among us and, under its influence, differences of culture and constitution were waived.
  • Extract from : « Dubliners » by James Joyce
  • For the first few days of our journey, we suffered greatly from the unruliness of the camels.
  • Extract from : « Southern Arabia » by Theodore Bent
  • The same conditions which bring about irritability and unruliness on the part of the child accompany suicidal tendencies.
  • Extract from : « Appletons' Popular Science Monthly, September 1899 » by Various
  • It has the tartness, the briskness, the unruliness of spring, and the aroma and intensity of summer.
  • Extract from : « Locusts and Wild Honey » by John Burroughs
  • The most unreasonable things in the world become most reasonable, because of the unruliness of men.
  • Extract from : « Pascal's Penses » by Blaise Pascal
  • And they thought that there were almost as many more that could not be served, through their unruliness.
  • Extract from : « The Law of Civilization and Decay » by Brooks Adams
  • This self-conceit of his, meanwhile, is apt to make him unruly, and the cause of unruliness in others when he emigrates.
  • Extract from : « At Last » by Charles Kingsley
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