Vocabulary Word
Word: unruly
Definition: disobedient; lawless; difficult to control
Definition: disobedient; lawless; difficult to control
Sentences Containing 'unruly'
Lo, Miss Pross, in harness of string, awakening the echoes, as an unruly charger, whip corrected, snorting and pawing the earth under the plane tree in the garden!
Thus many good families are impoverished and disgraced by these pert sluts, who, taking the advantage of a young man's simplicity and unruly desires, draw many heedless youths, nay, some of good estates, into their snares; and of this we have but too many instances.
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