unruly

With unruly hair, round glasses, an affable demeanor and a taste for V-neck sweaters, Amodei is worlds away from the corporate executive archetype -- and seems to be motivated by something his peers are not.

From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026

You want a real torn chunk, something closer to an unruly crouton than a breadcrumb.

From Salon ● Sep. 6, 2026

“Liveforever” remains an unforgettable ode to unruly youth, and one of the greatest novels in Latin American history.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026

One passenger on the Porter Airlines plane, Aryeh Kozuch, told CBC News the child had not been unruly but had seemed scared.

From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026

In the calm stillness I saw him open his eyes, his hand came to my face, tender and searching, wiping away the unruly tears.

From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya

If you like hockey but wish it was slower, unrulier and hot doggier, boy do I have a solution for you.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 21, 2024

“It’s become clear over the past two summers that these crowds will only grow larger and unrulier unless something changes.”

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 29, 2023

In a good year, though — and this is one — the event can feel like the unrulier, at times more adventurous younger sibling of the New York Film Festival.

From New York Times ● Apr. 19, 2022

It rearranged the energy in the room, made it unrulier.

From New York Times ● Apr. 6, 2022

But avoiding the unrulier parts of town has proved impossible, says Kirsten Knight, who has been in charge of housing the thousands of G20 delegates coming to Hamburg this week.

From Time ● Jul. 6, 2017

The good news is Freiman has written one of the funniest and unruliest novels in ages.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 14, 2023

But this is that rare movie that transcends its role as pure entertainment to become something genuinely cathartic, even therapeutic, giving children a symbolic language with which to manage their unruliest emotions.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 17, 2015

Now, with the once-predictable monsoon becoming a wild card, one of the unruliest rivers in the world is growing increasingly tempestuous.

From New York Times ● Jan. 23, 2013

With due allowance for rhetoric, the autocratic ruler of one of the world's unruliest unions was not exaggerating.

From Time Magazine Archive

She sits in her breeches—the unruliest baggage in Gloucestershire," cried Eldershawe, "and complains that fine ladies are not decent.

From His Grace of Osmonde Being the Portions of That Nobleman's Life Omitted in the Relation of His Lady's Story Presented to the World of Fashion under the Title of A Lady of Quality by Frances Hodgson Burnett