Vocabulary
Unruly
English and Urdu gloss, synonyms and antonyms, and example usage from our editorial sentence cache where available.
English meaning
disorderly and disruptive and not amenable to discipline or control.
Urdu meaning
سرکش، قابو میں نہ آنے والا
Example sentences (from Dawn)
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- Although unruly scenes are witnessed in other legislatures too, the Punjab Assembly has been experiencing extraordinary turmoil for the last three years.
- There is no doubt that legislatures across the world are witness to unruly conduct within their precincts, but this is no justification for such anunhealthy practice in Pakistan too.
- The CrPc was drafted under an empire that was of the view that the indigenous laws of the subcontinent were inept and uncertain and could not govern the unruly and uneducated local populace.
- But this is perhaps just what Benjamin Netanyahu and the cabal of zealots in the unruly coalition that backs him may want.
- But this is perhaps just what Benjamin Netanyahu and the cabal of zealots in the unruly coalition that backs him may want.
Synonyms
disorderly, rowdy, wild, unmanageable, uncontrollable, disobedient, disruptive
Antonyms
disciplined, obedient
Curator example
“a group of unruly children”
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