unruliness

Example Sentences

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Yet the perfectly imperfect shape of “Pavements” is similarly tailored to those who appreciate the band’s creative unruliness.

From Los Angeles Times • May 8, 2025

Jessie hung signs in her shops that warned customers against any unruliness.

From BBC • Mar. 11, 2023

To be sure, the wrangling of parties, the broken campaign promises, the sheer unruliness of it all, can turn people off.

From Salon • Feb. 18, 2023

Harder to disagree with, though, is the impeccable balance throughout; the dignified restraint of his “Eroica”; the unruliness of his Seventh’s finale, exactly the bacchic romp on the verge of derailment that it should be.

From New York Times • Nov. 23, 2022

They sit in dark corners and braid their hair in new shapes and twists in order to control the stiffness, the unruliness, the rebelliousness.

From "Krik? Krak!" by Edwidge Danticat