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单词 unruly
释义
unruly
adjective
uk
/ʌnˈruː.li/us
/ʌnˈruː.li/
Unrulypeoplearedifficulttocontroland often do notobeyrules:
（人）难以控制的，难驾驭的，难管束的
an unrulyclassofadolescents一个难以管理的少年班
Unrulyhairisdifficulttokeeptidy, oftenstickingup or out:
（头发）难梳理的，蓬乱的
an unrulymopofblackhair一头难梳理的乱蓬蓬的黑发
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  • madding
  • run wildidiom
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unruliness
(Definition ofunrulyfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

unruly| American Dictionary

unruly
adjective
us
/ʌnˈru·li/
difficulttocontrolormanage:
Her unrulybehaviorcausedchaosinclass.
(Definition ofunrulyfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofunruly

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Nature is not only extravagant andunrulybut potentially lethal.
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The natural world is characterised asunruly, profligate, and indecently fecund.
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Every governmental effort at economic stabilisation is easily challenged by a plurality ofunrulycorporatist interests.
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They stagedunrulywomen only to transform them into chaste figures, a staging that through identification disciplined the women in the audience.
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They do not tolerate tyrannical actions orunrulybehavior.
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Warders are to be provided for regulation of theunrulyincoming rabble.
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There is no mésure here, but artist and viewer enjoy the uproar, becauseunrulyhigh spirits are the mark and privilege of youth.
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However, most contemporary accounts of navvies tended to stigmatize them as an insubordinate,unruly, and ungovernable class of men.
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They are works of imagination, moreunrulythan most works of fiction, to be sure, but no less poetic in their connectedness and in the possible beauty of their form.
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Fathers respond only to antisocial behavior once it is established and then appear to back off from theirunrulychild and focus more attention on the child's better behaved sibling.
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They were fierce, clannish andunruly.
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In an environment where all institutional channels of interest intermediation had long been overwhelmed byunrulysocio-economic powers, only decisive state action could restore acceptable levels of governability.
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Theunrulyworld of language.
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Owing to theunrulyhubbub on the benches opposite, it is impossible to hear what is being said.
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In these ratherunrulypolitical days it is consoling to find such unanimity of thought and of mutual trust.
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