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unruly

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uncontrollable, willful, headstrong, forward, forward, violent, impulsive, uncurbed, impetuous, ill-advised, rash, reckless, dashing, heedless, perverse, intractable, recalcitrant, self-assertive, refractory, rebellious, wayward, inexorable, restive, impervious, hidebound, unyielding, incorrigible, intemperate, drunken, lawless, vicious, brawling, unlicensed, rowdy, bawdy, quarrelsome, mob-minded, immovable, unwieldy, obdurate, resolute, inflexible, forceful, dogged, mulish, fanatic, irrational, unreasonable, irrepressible, high-spirited, impudent, abandoned, profligate, truculent, stubborn, obstinate, turbulent, disorderly, contumacious, self-willed, opinionated, bullheaded, ungovernable, stiff-necked, feckless, ornery*, mean*, rarin'*, chafing at the bit*, hellbent*, skittish*, dangerous*.

Antonyms docile*, tractable, responsive.

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Another word for unruly

adjective

Not submitting to discipline or control:

disorderly, fractious, indocile, intractable, lawless, obstinate, obstreperous, recalcitrant, refractory, uncontrollable, undisciplined, ungovernable, unmanageable, untoward, wild. Idiom: out of line. See control, order, peace, resist

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One face stood out, a shock of unruly red hair waving in the wind.
He had to contend with his unruly nobles, several of whom he put to death.
Though proclaimed king, he was regarded as a mere name by the unruly nobles to whom a minority was convenient.
His fame lives in Eastern history as the conqueror who stemmed the tide of Western conquest on the East, and turned it definitely from East to West, as the hero who momentarily united the unruly East, and as the saint who realized in his personality the highest virtues and ideals of Mahommedanism.
In 1268 he took the cross with his cousin Edward, who, however, sent him back from Sicily to pacify the unruly province of Gascony.

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