unruliness

Example Sentences

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Since then, the word has never quite lost its implication of bad behavior, unruliness and arrogance.

From New York Times • Jun. 30, 2023

Jessie hung signs in her shops that warned customers against any unruliness.

From BBC • Mar. 11, 2023

To be sure, the wrangling of parties, the broken campaign promises, the sheer unruliness of it all, can turn people off.

From Salon • Feb. 18, 2023

Becker says the plants are easier to restrain if you don’t cut them; otherwise the regrowth seems to double the plant’s size and unruliness, but one or two in your yard always draws compliments.

From Los Angeles Times • May 24, 2022

They sit in dark corners and braid their hair in new shapes and twists in order to control the stiffness, the unruliness, the rebelliousness.

From "Krik? Krak!" by Edwidge Danticat