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My most noticeable physical trait is, hands down, my hair. It's big, unruly and curly, and you can spot it from a mile away... literally.
Becca Fitzpatrick

Meaning of "unruly" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF UNRULY

unruly  [ʌnˈruːlɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF UNRULY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Unruly is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES UNRULY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of unruly in the English dictionary

The definition of unruly in the dictionary is disposed to disobedience or indiscipline.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH UNRULY


Beaulieu
ˈbjuːlɪ
drooly
ˈdruːlɪ
duly
ˈdjuːlɪ
grooly
ˈɡruːlɪ
guly
ˈɡjuːlɪ
hooley
ˈhuːlɪ
Luthuli
luːˈtuːlɪ
mooli
ˈmuːlɪ
muhly
ˈmuːlɪ
newly
ˈnjuːlɪ
puli
ˈpjuːlɪ
puly
ˈpuːlɪ
ruly
ˈruːlɪ
tabbouleh
təˈbuːlɪ
throughly
ˈθruːlɪ
Thule
ˈθjuːlɪ
troolie
ˈtruːlɪ
truly
ˈtruːlɪ
unduly
ʌnˈdjuːlɪ
untruly
ʌnˈtruːlɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE UNRULY

unrove
unroyal
unroyally
UNRRA
unrubbed
unrude
unruffable
unruffle
unruffled
unruffledness
unrule
unruled
unrulier
unruliest
unruliment
unruliness
unruly certificate
unrumpled
unrushed
unrusted

WORDS THAT END LIKE UNRULY

Fourth of July
July
masculy
nebuly
patchouly
raguly
sclerocauly
slightly
specifically
successfully
supply
the Fourth of July
the only
totally
trituberculy
typically
unfortunately
usually
weekly
yours truly

Synonyms and antonyms of unruly in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «UNRULY»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «unruly» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of unruly

Translation of «unruly» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF UNRULY

Find out the translation of unruly to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of unruly from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «unruly» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

难管教的 >
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

indisciplinado
570 millions of speakers

English

unruly
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

अनियंत्रित
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

جامحة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

непослушные
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

indisciplinado
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

অবশ
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

indiscipliné
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Tidak teratur
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

ungebärdig
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

始末に負えない
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

제멋대로인
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Unruly
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

ngô nghịch
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

கட்டுக்கடங்காத
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

बेलगाम
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

asi
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

indisciplinato
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

niesforny
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

неслухняні
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

indisciplinat
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

ατίθασα
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

oproerige
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

oregerlig
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

uregjerlig
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of unruly

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «UNRULY»

The term «unruly» is quite widely used and occupies the 33.740 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «UNRULY» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about unruly

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9 QUOTES WITH «UNRULY»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word unruly.
1
Angela Cartwright
I hope that through my work, artists will take some chances, break some rules, and make art that comes from inside of them. I would like to be remembered as a kind person, a great Mom, and a bit unruly - in a good way!
2
John Donne
Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?
3
Becca Fitzpatrick
My most noticeable physical trait is, hands down, my hair. It's big, unruly and curly, and you can spot it from a mile away... literally.
4
Jose Ortega y Gasset
In order to master the unruly torrent of life the learned man meditates, the poet quivers, and the political hero erects the fortress of his will.
5
Frank Miller
'Occupy' is nothing but a pack of louts, thieves, and rapists, an unruly mob, fed by Woodstock-era nostalgia and putrid false righteousness. These clowns can do nothing but harm America.
6
James Newman
The infinite in mathematics is alway unruly unless it is properly treated.
7
Ian Rankin
The most difficult part of any crime novel is the plotting. It all begins simply enough, but soon you're dealing with a multitude of linked characters, strands, themes and red herrings - and you need to try to control these unruly elements and weave them into a pattern.
8
Jeremy Renner
The most experience I had in the criminology field is playing a thug as an actor. That was my first paid job. The police academy at the college was paying people to reenact the calls that potential cops would get. So I got to play thugs and people who were unruly.
9
Stella Young
It is a truth universally acknowledged that from puberty onwards, the female body is disgusting and unruly and must be tamed, trimmed and tinted to within an inch of its life before it can be allowed to roam freely in the public eye.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «UNRULY»

Discover the use of unruly in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to unruly and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Unruly Girls, Unrepentant Mothers: Redefining Feminism on Screen
Unruly Girls, Unrepentent Mothers, a companion to Kathleen Rowe Karlyn's groundbreaking work, The Unruly Woman, studies the ways popular culture and current debates within and about feminism inform each other.
Kathleen Rowe Karlyn, 2011
2
Unruly Examples: On the Rhetoric of Exemplarity
These 2 essays demonstrate that, beyond example's rich genealogy in the rhetorical tradition, it involves issues that are central to current theories of meaning and ethics in literature and philosophy.
Alexander Gelley, 1995
3
Unruly Americans and the Origins of the Constitution
In Unruly Americans and the Origins of the Constitution, Holton provides the startling discovery that the primary purpose of the Constitution was, simply put, to make America more attractive to investment.
Woody Holton, 2008
4
Unruly Gods: Divinity and Society in China
The essays in this volume eloquently document the existence of other images that allowed Chinese gods to challenge the prevailing power structures and traditional mores of Chinese society.
Meir Shahar, Robert Paul Weller, 1996
5
The Unruly Woman: Gender and the Genres of Laughter
In this groundbreaking work, Kathleen Rowe explores how the unruly woman—often a voluptuous, noisy, joke-making rebel or "woman on top"—uses humor and excess to undermine patriarchal norms and authority.
Kathleen Rowe, 2011
6
Unruly Women: The Politics of Social and Sexual Control in ...
Bynum searched local and state court records, public documents, and manuscript collections to locate and document the lives of these otherwise ordinary, obscure women.
Victoria E. Bynum, 1992
7
Unruly Complexity: Ecology, Interpretation, Engagement
CHANGE "mu; Unruly History = conditions for I y.' complexity luturc change comp ex' y \\ Structures subiect to / \ restructuring / \ 1' "External" lorces lead to / ORGANIZATION OF \ "Internal" restructuring COMPLEXITY OF iNTERACTIONS \ I Look ...
Peter J. Taylor, 2010
8
Unruly Women of Paris: Images of the Commune
This book analyzes the representations of women who were part of the insurrection known as the Paris Commune. the uprising and its bloody suppression by the French army is still one of the most hotly debated episodes in modern history.
Gay L. Gullickson, 1996
9
Unruly Hills: A Political Ecology of India's Northeast
The questions that inspired this study are central to contemporary research within environmental anthropology, political ecology, and environmental history: How does the introduction of a modern, capitalist, resource regime affect the ...
Bengt G. Karlsson, 2011
10
Unruly Cities?: Order/Disorder
IHIKHTMIMIK. CITIES. Unruly. Cities? Cities are places of mixing and meeting - places where different worlds encounter one another on the streets. Yet cities are all too often seen as unruly places in need of government and control. Unruly ...
Chris Brook, Gerry Mooney, Steve Pile, 2006

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «UNRULY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term unruly is used in the context of the following news items.
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3 unruly passengers removed from flight at Logan Airport
BOSTON —Massachusetts State Police say they are holding three men who were allegedly intoxicated and acting unruly on a flight from Ireland to Boston. «WCVB Boston, Jun 15»
2
Troopers handcuff unruly 5-year-old in northern NY school
NEW YORK (AP) -- State police are defending the actions of two troopers who handcuffed and shackled the legs of an unruly 5-year-old special-needs student at ... «CNYcentral.com, May 15»
3
China to keep track of its tourists' unruly behavior abroad
BEIJING (AP) — China says it will try to convince its citizens to behave themselves while traveling abroad by requiring authorities back home to keep records of ... «Yahoo News, Apr 15»
4
Indian Police Buy Pepper Spraying Drones to Control 'Unruly Mobs'
"They can be used to shower pepper powder on an unruly mob in case of any trouble," he said. "We had used drone cameras and they were so effective that we ... «Newsweek, Apr 15»
5
Wade hoping NBA can better police unruly fans
Wade has asked the NBA to further improve the ways it protects players from the most unruly of fans, making that request during the league's brief investigation ... «NBA.com, Jan 15»
6
Beijing is embarrassed about unruly Chinese tourists and plans to …
On Friday, Chinese state media reported that Beijing was taking new measures to combat a growing problem: the embarrassing behavior of Chinese tourists ... «Washington Post, Jan 15»
7
Crowd for Air Jordan raffle turns unruly
Toledo police officers keep an eye on a crowd gathered outside the Franklin Park Mall for the release of the Nike Air Jordan Retro 'Legend Blue' shoe. «Toledo Blade, Dec 14»
8
About 90 students detained after West Bend H.S. protest
WEST BEND, Wis. —West Bend School District officials said about 90 students were detained Thursday after a meeting with school officials became unruly. «WISN Milwaukee, Nov 14»
9
Australian café owner sparks debate after saying 'No' to having …
... parent who allows their child to misbehave in public, while others claimed the café would “probably get more custom” from its public stance on unruly children. «The Independent, Oct 14»
10
Unruly Air India flyer tied to seat from Australia to Delhi
An Indian passenger on Air India's Melbourne-Delhi flight on Wednesday reportedly got so unruly after a few drinks that he allegedly tore the clothes of two flight ... «Times of India, Aug 14»

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