noun
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A person who acts in a disorderly manner.
adjective
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Not in order; marked by disorder or disarray.
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The books and papers are in a disorderly state.
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Not acting in an orderly way, as the functions of the body or mind.
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Not complying with the restraints of order and law; unruly; lawless.
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disorderly people; disorderly assemblies
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Offensive to good morals and public decency.
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a disorderly house
adverb
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In a confused or lawless manner.
Examples of disorderly in a Sentence
In many regions the rising was purely disorderly and destitute of organization.
Fox's youth was disorderly, but it was never indolent.
On the 15th of November he was assassinated, and as no one was punished for this crime the insolence of the disorderly elements increased, and shots were exchanged with the Swiss Guard.
It was uncertain, irregular and disorderly.
Nearer and nearer in disorderly crowds came the uhlans and the French dragoons pursuing them.
A disorderly levy of Scots, appearing on the hills above Dunbar, left their strong position (like Leslie later) and were defeated with heavy loss.
Closet organization solutions make it easy to put your life in order by transforming disorderly, cluttered closets, pantries, laundry rooms, garages and offices into functional storage and productive work space.
There are just so many more ways in which an orderly system can become disorderly than vise versa.
The process may seem disorderly since multiple avenues may be followed in parallel, and relevance thresholds may be initially set quite low.
Secondly, Because we are charged to withdraw from those that walk disorderly.
If you get drunk, get violent, get disorderly then you'll get locked up.
The " Reception " seemed to me rather inchoate not to say disorderly.
With his disorderly band of accomplices - including a demonic, gun-toting tomcat - he immediately begins to create havoc.
His Vindication appeared in February 1779; and, as Milman remarks, " this single discharge from the ponderous artillery of learning and sarcasm laid prostrate the whole disorderly squadron " of his rash and feeble assailants.'
The ringing of bells, building operations, vibration of machinery, fireworks, bands, a circus, merry-go-rounds, collecting disorderly crowds, dancing, singing, &c., have been held under certain circumstances to constitute nuisances so as to interfere with quiet and comfort, and have been restrained by injunction.
She enforced outward decency in her household, was herself temperate in eating and drinking, and was by no means tolerant of disorderly behaviour on the part of the ladies of her court.
In the disorderly flight both Louis and his younger brother Henry, refusing to abandon the field, lost their lives.
He began to conduct himself in a disorderly manner in the - House of Commons, and in 1852 he was found to be of unsound mind by a commission of lunacy.
Amongst the legitimate reasons for suspecting the correctness of a text are patent contradictions in a passage or its immediate neighbourhood, proved and inexplicable deviations from the standards for forms, constructions and usages (mere rarity or singularity is not enough), weak and purposeless repetitions of a word (if there is no reason for attributing these to the writer), violations of the laws of metre and rhythm as observed by the author, obvious breaks in the thought (incoherence) or disorderly sequence in the same (double or multiple incoherence).
At this "Seven Days' Battle" (q.v.) in which he stopped McClellan's time the Welsh marches were in a very disorderly condition.
He restored to the royal domain the lands that had been usurped by the great nobles and by the church; he maintained at Paris a luxurious, though, from the example he himself set, a disorderly court; he was a patron of the arts, and delighted in the exquisite craftsmanship of his treasurer, the goldsmith St Eloi.
Mention must be made of the Rebecca riots in1843-1844in South Wales, wherein many toll gates were destroyed by mobs of countrymen dressed in female garb, " as the daughters of Rebecca about to possess the gates of their enemies "; and the Anti-Tithe agitation of1885-1886- largely traceable to the inflammatory language used concerning clerical tithe by certain organs of the vernacular press - which led to some disorderly scenes between distraining parties of police and crowds of excited peasants in the more remote rural districts.
General Daza, who should have cooperated with Buendia, turned back, on receiving news of the Peruvian defeat, and led the Bolivian troops to Tacna in a hasty and somewhat disorderly retreat.
These forests enjoyed until quite recent times an unenviable notoriety as the campingground and lurking-place of footpads and other disorderly characters.
The region was inhospitable, the domain a prey to lawless exaction, the house itself savage and disorderly.
Their disorderly cohorts made an attack upon Italy, which was repulsed by the Lombards, and another on Spain with the same want of success; but beyond the Rhine they embarked upon the conquest of Germany, where Clovis had already reduced to submission the country on the banks of the Maine, later known.
Why, in short, was everything so slow, so expensive, so disorderly, so often grossly unjust?
He was lying on a bench and although the group were noisy they were not disorderly and no arrestable offense had been committed.
In the evening we went to Rijswijk, where Bram and Olga live in a cramped and rather disorderly house.
They tend to be sometimes idle, lazy, loafers, in the way of progress, disorderly.
A person shall not behave in a disorderly manner in the library or use violent, abusive or obscene language therein.
This array proved as effective against the disorderly charges of the French noblesse as it had been against the heavy columns of the Scottish pikemen.
Arrested for disorderly conduct at an Atlanta strip club.
He was arrested for disorderly conduct after having a loud argument with his wife.
Coleman got into an argument at a bowling alley that led to yet another disorderly conduct charge.
She was later arrested again for disorderly intoxication among other charges.
The death penalty was freely awarded for theft and other crimes regarded as coming under that head; for theft involving entrance of palace or temple treasury, for illegal purchase from minor or slave, for selling stolen goods or receiving the same, for common theft in the open (in default of multiple restoration) or receiving the same, for false claim to goods, for kidnapping, for assisting or harbouring fugitive slaves, for detaining or appropriating same, for brigandage, for fraudulent sale of drink, for disorderly conduct of tavern, for delegation of personal service, for misappropriating the levy, for oppression of feudal holders, for causing death of a householder by bad building.
From the violence of tyranny, and the rapine of a disorderly banditti, by which this district long suffered, as well as from shocks of earthquakes, the villages have a ruinous and dilapidated appearance; and, with the exception of a few fields in their neighbourhood, the country presents a rocky and sandy waste, with in many places scarcely a show of vegetation.
By personal detective work, that is, by visiting police stations at unexpected times and by making the rounds at night of disorderly places which were suspected of violating the law, he not only displayed personal courage in positions of some danger, but aroused public opinion.
Peculations and disorderly conduct in the senate were the offences charged against Shafirov, and with some justice.
At its May session in 1742 the General Court of Massachusetts forbade itinerant preaching save with full consent from the resident pastor; in May 1743 the annual ministerial convention, by a small plurality, declared against "several errors in doctrine and disorders in practice which have of late obtained in various parts of the land," against lay preachers and disorderly revival meetings; in the same year Charles Chauncy, who disapproved of the revival, published Seasonable Thoughts on the State of Religion in New England; and in 1744-1745 Whitefield, upon his second tour in New England, found that the faculties of Harvard and Yale had officially "testified" and "declared" against him and that most pulpits were closed to him.
In the crisis which followed he took an extreme view, was prominent in the disorderly proceedings when Mr. Asquith was refused a hearing in the House of Commons, and threw in his lot with the " Diehards."
He fought for her at the battle of Toro on the 1st of March 1476; had a prominent part in placing her on the throne; and served her indefatigably in her efforts to suppress the disorderly nobles of Castile.
Jessica Sierra was arrested a second time in December 2007 for disorderly intoxication in a bar.
It set out also at length the very defective and disorderly condition of the state accounts.
Early in 1895 murmurings and disorderly conduct against the authorities began to take place in the military school at Rio de Janeiro, which had always been a hotbed of intrigue.
But Zumalacarregui, who was noted for his grave and silent disposition and his strong religious principles, disliked the disorderly life of the guerrillas, and when regular forces were organized in the north he entered the 1st battalion of Guipuzcoa as an officer.
The strong measures he took against disorderly elements in Aragon in 1591 were provoked by extreme misconduct on the part of a faction.
In the town of Buffalo he collected a disorderly rabble, who seized and fortified Navy Island, in the river between the two countries, and for some weeks troubled the Canadian frontier.
On the Parliamentary right, Goring had swept away the Yorkshire horse, and although most of his troopers had followed in disorderly pursuit, Sir Charles Lucas with some squadrons was attacking the exposed right of Leven's infantry.