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Word Meanings - UNRULY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Not submissive to rule; disregarding restraint; disposed to violate; turbulent; ungovernable; refractory; as, an unruly boy; unruly boy; unruly conduct. But the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison. James iii. 8.

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  • MORBIDEZZA
    Delicacy or softness in the representation of flesh.
  • MUTINOUS
    Disposed to mutiny; in a state of mutiny; characterized by mutiny; seditious; insubordinate. The city was becoming mutinous. Macaulay. -- Mu"ti*nous*ly, adv. -- Mu"ti*nous*ness, n.
  • PURIFY
    1. To make pure or clear from material defilement, admixture, or imperfection; to free from extraneous or noxious matter; as, to purify liquors or metals; to purify the blood; to purify the air. 2. Hence, in figurative uses: To free from guilt
  • CORRECTLY
    In a correct manner; exactly; acurately; without fault or error.
  • CORRUPTIONIST
    One who corrupts, or who upholds corruption. Sydney Smith.
  • AGITATE
    1. To move with a violent, irregular action; as, the wind agitates the sea; to agitate water in a vessel. "Winds . . . agitate the air." Cowper. 2. To move or actuate. Thomson. 3. To stir up; to disturb or excite; to perturb; as, he was greatly
  • CORRUPTIBLE
    1. Capable of being made corrupt; subject to decay. "Our corruptible bodies." Hooker. Ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold. 1 Pet. i. 18. 2. Capable of being corrupted, or morally vitiated; susceptible of depravation.
  • CONFUSIVE
    Confusing; having a tendency to confusion. Bp. Hall.
  • RIOTOUS
    1. Involving, or engaging in, riot; wanton; unrestrained; luxurious. The younger son . . . took his journey into a far country, and there wasted his substance with riotous living. Luke xv. 13. 2. Partaking of the nature of an unlawful assembly
  • CONFUS
    Confused, disturbed. Chaucer.
  • DEBASINGLY
    In a manner to debase.
  • CORRECTORY
    Containing or making correction; corrective.
  • TURBULENTLY
    In a turbulent manner.
  • DEBASED
    Turned upside down from its proper position; inverted; reversed.
  • DEFECTIVE
    Lacking some of the usual forms of declension or conjugation; as, a defective noun or verb. -- De*fect"ive*ly, adv. -- De*fect"ive*ness, n. (more info) 1. Wanting in something; incomplete; lacking a part; deficient; imperfect; faulty; -- applied
  • CORRECTIFY
    To correct. When your worship's plassed to correctify a lady. Beau & Fl.
  • PROFLIGATENESS
    The quality of being profligate; an abandoned course of life; profligacy.
  • CORRUPTION
    1. The act of corrupting or making putrid, or state of being corrupt or putrid; decomposition or disorganization, in the process of putrefaction; putrefaction; deterioration. The inducing and accelerating of putrefaction is a subject
  • BETTERMOST
    Best. "The bettermost classes." Brougham.
  • CORRUPTIVE
    Having the quality of taining or vitiating; tending to produce corruption. It should be endued with some corruptive quality for so speedy a dissolution of the meat. Ray.
  • EFFLAGITATE
    To ask urgently. Cockeram.
  • INCORRECT
    1. Not correct; not according to a copy or model, or to established rules; inaccurate; faulty. The piece, you think, is incorrect. Pope. 2. Not in accordance with the truth; inaccurate; not exact; as, an incorrect statement or calculation. 3. Not
  • UNCORRUPTIBLE
    Incorruptible. "The glory of the uncorruptible God." Rom. i.
  • CONVICIOUS
    Expressing reproach; abusive; railing; taunting. "Convicious words." Queen Elizabeth .

 

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