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The trait of being prone to disobedience and lack of discipline
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unruliness
Word definitions for unruliness in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The state of being unruly.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Unruliness \Un*rul"i*ness\, n. Quality or state unruly.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the trait of being prone to disobedience and lack of discipline [syn: fractiousness , willfulness , wilfulness ]
Usage examples of unruliness.
It is there that the People, endlessly apostrophized by the politicians, make their appearance as audience, pupils and ideal citizens: patriotic in their muscularity but never threatening in their unruliness.
One observer noted that customs collectors “dare not exercise their office for fear of the fury and unruliness of the people” and that Virginians as well as New Englanders were “haughty and jealous of their liberties, impatient of restraint, and can scarcely bear the thought of being controlled by any superior power.