disorderliness

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dis·or·der·ly

(dĭs-ôr′dər-lē)

adj.

1. Lacking regular or logical order or arrangement: a disorderly pile of clothes.

2. Undisciplined; unruly: disorderly youths.

3. Law Disturbing the public peace or decorum.

dis·or′der·li·ness n.

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Noun	1.	disorderliness - a condition in which things are not in their expected places; "the files are in complete disorder" disorder condition, status - a state at a particular time; "a condition (or state) of disrepair"; "the current status of the arms negotiations" shambles - a condition of great disorder untidiness - the condition of being untidy mess, messiness, muss, mussiness - a state of confusion and disorderliness; "the house was a mess"; "she smoothed the mussiness of the bed" disarrangement, disorganisation, disorganization - a condition in which an orderly system has been disrupted clutter, fuddle, jumble, mare's nest, muddle, smother, welter - a confused multitude of things orderliness, order - a condition of regular or proper arrangement; "he put his desk in order"; "the machine is now in working order"
	2.	disorderliness - rowdy behavior rowdiness, rowdyism, roughness disorder - a disturbance of the peace or of public order
	3.	disorderliness - untidiness (especially of clothing and appearance) disarray messiness, untidiness - the trait of being untidy and messy

disorderliness

noun

1. A lack of order or regular arrangement:

chaos, clutter, confusedness, confusion, derangement, disarrangement, disarray, disorder, disorderedness, disorganization, jumble, mess, mix-up, muddle, muss, scramble, topsy-turviness, tumble.

Slang: snafu.

2. The state of being messy or unkempt:

messiness, sloppiness, slovenliness, untidiness.

3. The quality or condition of being unruly:

fractiousness, indocility, intractability, intractableness, obstinacy, obstinateness, obstreperousness, recalcitrance, recalcitrancy, refractoriness, uncontrollability, uncontrollableness, ungovernableness, unmanageability, unruliness, untowardness, wildness.

Translations

disordine

disorderliness

(= untidiness, of room, desk) → Unordentlichkeit f; (of queue, process, row) → Ungeordnetheit f

(= unruliness, of person) → Wildheit f; (of crowd, event) → Undiszipliniertheit f; (of conduct) → Ungehörigkeit f

References in classic literature ?

There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method.

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Flight, sending problems away without matching them with an appropriate solution, and oversight, ignoring problems without solving them, can be seen as symptomatic of the disorderliness of processes of institutional change.

Resolving financial reporting problems: an institutional analysis of the process

The emergence of mixed-gender dining among the Scottish middle ranks was partly in response to anxieties arising out of the disorderliness of male drinking,(85) and hence there was potential for redressing the balance of gendered power over the dining-room.

Middle-rank consumers and domestic culture in Edinburgh and Glasgow 1720-1840

4) DFA paraphrases this as 'Cratinus reduced the disorderliness and, in some sense, fixed the number of regular actors at three '.

The number of speaking actors in Old Comedy

Biswas, generally regarded as Naipul's most important book, Kelly properly emphasizes the two dimensions of the narrative stressed by other critics--the house as the physical expression of Biswas's quest for personal dignity and freedom and the house as symbolic of the writer's need and ability to create imaginative order from the disorderliness of his surroundings.

V.S. Naipaul and the West Indies

Melville's Ishmael produces a nearly endless series of counter-commentaries on the meanings of the whale, boasting that his book is one of those "enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the only true method," and confessing that it is but "the draught of a draught" informed by "Doubts of all things earthly, and intuitions of some things heavenly.

History of American Literature: 1830-1865

We are, by this conference, giving His Imperial Majesty 21 days ultimatum to change his stand now and work for the improvement of Ibadan, rather than disorderliness,' the obas further said.

Ibadan obas threaten to remove Olubadan

To fill this demand, perhaps expand and deepen discourse between artist and collector, would that in the 'orderliness' of things, or in their orderly disorderliness, more visual artists find art's anarchy resolved into transcendence, and through a defined, disciplined aesthetic renew their sensitivity to Filipino culture-the wellspring of our native soul

Tracking what's Filipino in contemporary painting

It becomes more complicated to represent the vehicle trajectories on the space diagram as a result of the disorderliness in the dynamics of the vehicle movements along the traffic stream.

Application of Chaos Theory in the Prediction of Motorised Traffic Flows on Urban Networks

There is more disorderliness in theactivated complex of 1,2-DNB- than that of 1,3- DNB- and 1,4-DNB-.

Protonation Reaction of Anion Radicals of some Dinitroaromatics in Hexamethylphosphortriamide (HMPA)

spite of their disorderliness, Jim and I belong to an artificial

After the liberal autonomous subject: a lament

This man, when the praetor was giving magnificent games and distributing largesse very freely, being unable to tolerate the disorderliness of the people who were often demanding many gifts to be given to the unworthy, in order to demonstrate that he was both generous and despised the multitude, summoned beggars from the Vatican and loaded them with rich gifts.