Definition of "unruly" []

• Difficult or impossible to discipline, control, or rule. (adjective)

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• "Principal Hector Espinoza has taken the unusual step of canceling the final seven games of the Cougars season after the team had engaged in what he called unruly behavior during competition."
• "It acts as a kind of palimpsest over which the literary writer might inscribe his/her own variations on "criminal" behavior and its sources in unruly human impulses."
• "She looked at his hands, the backs of which were covered in unruly black hair."