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disorderly
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Word definitions for disorderly in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1580s, "opposed to moral order," also "opposed to legal authority;" see dis- + orderly (adj.). The meaning "untidy" is attested from 1630s; the older senses are those in disorderly house , disorderly conduct , etc.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 Not in order; marked by disorder or disarray. 2 Not acting in an orderly way, as the functions of the body or mind. 3 Not complying with the restraints of order and law; unruly; lawless. 4 (context legal English) Offensive to good morals and public ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Disorderly \Dis*or"der*ly\, a. Not in order; marked by disorder; disarranged; immethodical; as, the books and papers are in a disorderly state. Not acting in an orderly way, as the functions of the body or mind. Not complying with the restraints of order ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. undisciplined and unruly; "disorderly youths"; "disorderly conduct" [ant: orderly ] in utter disorder; "a disorderly pile of clothes" [syn: higgledy-piggledy , hugger-mugger , jumbled , topsy-turvy ] completely unordered and unpredictable and confusing ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES disorderly conduct (= behaving in a noisy or violent way in public ) ▪ Her husband was arrested for drunkenness and disorderly conduct. COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ NOUN behaviour ▪ No plea was taken from Mr. Bell ...
Usage examples of disorderly.
Objection 1: It seems that the accidents do not remain in this sacrament without a subject, because there ought not to be anything disorderly or deceitful in this sacrament of truth.
Nearer and nearer in disorderly crowds came the Uhlans and the French dragoons pursuing them.
Their small topknots were fashionably askew, and their sidelocks stood out in disorderly fringes from their florid faces.
But they are by no means loose aggregations of men and women coming in a disorderly manner together in conformity with their momentary caprices.
A tipsy, disorderly, vindictive debil-debil it was, that made the boldest piccaninny shriek with dismay.
The narrow boreholes of explosive drills lined the walls like the work of disorderly termites.
Demoralised after their magnificent struggle of eleven months the burghers were now a beaten and disorderly rabble flying wildly to the eastward, and only held together by the knowledge that in their desperate situation there was more comfort and safety in numbers.
Walter, Frank Tippins would make us a good sheriff mainly because, as a onetime cowhand for the Hendrys, he was sure to sympathize with cattleman problems in regard to rustling, disorderly conduct by the cowhands, undue enforcement of cattle-roaming ordinances, and the like.
The dockers form a disciplined front rank, and behind them is a disorderly and noisy crowd, like the one that had gathered outside the grogshop but more determined.
As a matter of course, the most renowned were the most worthless, dissolute fellows, gamblers, frequenters of disorderly houses, hard drinkers, debauchees, tormentors and suborners of honest girls, liars, and wholly incapable of any good or virtuous feeling.
And, perhaps, there are very few people in the world who would not rather choose to die than to have all their secret follies, the errors of their judgments, the vanity of their minds, the falseness of their pretences, the frequency of their vain and disorderly passions, their uneasinesses, hatreds, envies, and vexations made known to all the world.
They loved to plow up the mangroves and bulldoze the gnarled, disorderly native vegetation and replace them with block houses closed to the breeze and decorative shrubs that belonged somewhere else.
Bacchanal threads astray from a disorderly front-lock of rich brown hair were alive over an eyebrow showing like a seal upon the lightest and securest of slumbers.
If one looks through nearly any book that he has written in the last forty years one finds the same idea constantly recurring: the supposed antithesis between the man of science who is working towards a planned World State and the reactionary who is trying to restore a disorderly past.
Both Chloe and Beau Beamish wrinkled their foreheads at the disorderly notes of triple horns, whose pealing made an acid in the air instead of sweetness.