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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Noun1.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

disorderliness

n
(= 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
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There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method.
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Disorderliness on Nigerian roads has become a matter of constant discussion on radio, television and in the daily newspapers recently.
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In the pursuit of a visual idiom that befits Melville's novel, perhaps--as Ishmael puts it--'a careful disorderliness is the true method'.
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The petition stressed that the activities of the regional chairman of the GPRTU in the Volta region are creating chaotic situation and disorderliness in the transport industry, thereby making life uncomfortable for the travelling public.
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His Highness said: "The press has been and will always be a solid fortress for ensuring security and stability as long as it is based on responsibility and the elite values of journalistic work, particularly since we are living in a world in which many areas witness a state of disorderliness in the circulation of information.
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Hamza Shahbaz was present in LHC on Wednesday as the court expressed displeasure at the disorderliness of PML-N party workers.
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Their deviations ranging from disorderliness, crying, disobedience, quarrelsomeness, laziness normalize through work (not play) in the Prepared Environment.
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Nairobi County Assembly Transport Committee Chairman James Mwangi on Tuesday said there has been a lot of disorderliness and insanity in the CBD, brought about by double parking.
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Those who lack this order but do not imagine that they would achieve it the very first day in a miraculous manner, when they make some kind of plans to achieve it, observe from the beginning that their habitual disorderliness vanishes in certain respects in the course of the very first sessions.
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The airport's disorderliness continues to make headline news in the country and region.
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The paper aims at examine the socio-political relevance and discourse value of these performances in the clamour for social reengineering, especially with respect to reordering perceived disorderliness in the conduct of the affairs of Nigeria as a nation.
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On the other hand, Tumi, in spite of her material success which is evident in her relocation from the disorderliness of the township to the peace and quiet of the suburbs (29), seeks fulfilment, not in herself, but in another human being--a child.
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