unrulyun‧ru‧ly /ʌnˈruːli/ adjective unrulyOrigin:
1400-1500 ruly ‘behaving well’ (15-21 centuries), from rule - A family attempts to cope with the eruption into their lives of an unruly aunt.
- Gardeners regularly stroll the grounds, picking up stray pieces of trash and trimming unruly bushes.
- In recent years, however, the fundamentalist camp has grown unruly.
- She cried her heart out, all because of an unruly trouble-making, black-hearted child who was ripping her apart.
- So in May Disney obtained permission to move 100 of the bald, hunch-backed and unruly birds 60 miles away.
- They recruited their soldiers from the more adventurous or the more unruly on their route.
- You can spot her by her unruly hair and her shocking-pink work suit.
NOUN► hair· You can spot her by her unruly hair and her shocking-pink work suit.· Hoppy ran his fingers through his unruly hair.
nounrulerulerrulingunrulinessadjectiverulingunrulyruledverbruleoverrule