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unruly

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unruly in WordNet English dictionary

adjective
  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"
    boisterous  rambunctious  robustious  rumbustious  unruly 
  2. unwilling to submit to authority
    "unruly teenagers"
    disobedient  unruly 
  3. of persons
    "the little boy's parents think he is spirited, but his teacher finds him unruly"
    indocile  uncontrollable  ungovernable  unruly 
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