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Meaning of unruly

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  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}, {unruly}]
      2: unwilling to submit to authority; "unruly teenagers" [syn:
         {disobedient}, {unruly}]
      3: of persons; "the little boy's parents think he is spirited,
         but his teacher finds him unruly" [syn: {indocile},
         {uncontrollable}, {ungovernable}, {unruly}]

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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