[ UK /dɪsˈɔːdəli/ ]
[ US /dɪˈsɔɹdɝɫi/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. completely unordered and unpredictable and confusing
  2. in utter disorder
    a disorderly pile of clothes
  3. undisciplined and unruly
    disorderly conduct
    disorderly youths
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How To Use disorderly In A Sentence

  • Each House may determine the rules of its proceedings, punish its members for disorderly behavior, and, with the concurrence of two thirds, expel a member.
  • This suggests a certain diminished tolerance for what is defined as antisocial behavior; Eric Monkkonen, on the other hand, in “A Disorderly People?” A History of American Law
  • An element of the crowd began to hoot and catcall during the speeches, setting a disorderly tone for the following proceedings.
  • “It was a dark and stormy night” might become “It was a caliginous and raving night” or “It was an obscure and disorderly night” – not exactly conveying what the original does. Big Brother and Stupid Monkeys « Hyperpat’s HyperDay
  • When the officer said call us back if he comes back, that means he did not commit a crime that we can make a case against him with; now if we are there and he acts an ass, then disorderly conduct works to put him in cuffs every time. An Echo of Virginia Tech
  • The captain's behavior is at the center of two probes, one led by Italian coast guard and one by Italian prosecutors, who are investigating in part whether Mr. Schettino's conduct after the shipwreck fomented a disorderly evacuation. Italian Captain: 'We Abandoned the Ship'
  • The disorderly procession went three times _deiseal_ (according to the course of the sun) round each house in the village, striking the walls and shouting on coming to a door a rhyme demanding admission. Christmas in Ritual and Tradition, Christian and Pagan
  • These fibres are surrounded by a matrix of disorderly keratin-like proteins cross-linked by sulphur atoms, like steel cables embedded in concrete.
  • They arrested the peaceful marchers, put them in paddy wagons, and charged them with disorderly conduct.
  • You never know when some nut is going to come out of the woodwork and claim you stole her idea, you're stalking George Clooney and you are drunk and disorderly on the balcony late at night...oh wait...those last two things..never mind. If I hold you harmless, will you hold it against me?
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