1VIOLENTviolent or difficult to control 粗暴的;难驾驭的,难管教的SYN wild
unruly children
难管教的孩子
unruly behaviour
粗暴的行为
2.UNTIDYunruly hair is difficult to keep tidy 〔头发〕难梳理的,乱蓬蓬的
—unruliness noun [uncountableU]
Examples from the Corpus
unruly• In recent years, however, the fundamentalistcamp has grown unruly.• A family attempts to cope with the eruption into their lives of an unrulyaunt.• So in May Disney obtainedpermission to move 100 of the bald, hunch-backed and unrulybirds 60 miles away.• Gardeners regularly stroll the grounds, picking up stray pieces of trash and trimmingunruly bushes.• You can spot her by her unruly hair and her shocking-pink work suit.• They recruited their soldiers from the more adventurous or the more unruly on their route.• She cried her heart out, all because of an unruly trouble-making, black-hearted child who was ripping her apart.
Originunruly
(1400-1500)ruly“behaving well”((15-21 centuries)), from rule