Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Unruly.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective obsolete Unruly; disorderly.

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  • adjective obsolete Unruly; disorderly.

Etymologies

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dis- +‎ ruly

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Examples

  • Laura lay sobbing face downwards on her bed, or otherwise vented her pertinacious and disruly grief — at these moments she thought she scented a dash of relief in Evelyn, at the prospect of deliverance.

    The Getting of Wisdom 2003

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