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• He's in lockup for 30 days for drunk and disorderly.From the entry lockup
• The student celebrated his exam success by drinking heavily and finally was arrested for being drunk and disorderly.From the entry drunk and disorderly
• "American Yiddish commemorated this era of poor management with the term "kessel garten", meaning a crowded and disorderly place."From the entry kesselgarten
• It's a poor system, because if you want to do such-and-such, you must first find that function in a long and disorderly list.From the entry such-and-such
• It leads to an uncritical dichotomy between disorderly people and law abiders.2001, Bernard E. Harcourt, Illusion of Order. From the entry law abider
• What had been an orderly, nondrunken set of blocks became gradually disorderly, openly police-defying.1997, Elizabeth Stevenson, Babbitts and bohemians: from the Great War to the Great Depression. From the entry nondrunken
• Four years ago Cynthia Payne was sentenced to 18 months’ imprisonment for keeping a disorderly house.1982 October 12, Craig Brown, “Writing Cynthia Payne's biography”, in The Guardian, →ISSN. From the entry disorderly house
• Check ball bearings for pitting, cracks, disorderly conduct; cups and cones for uneven wear; spindle for straightness.1972, Richard Ballantine, Richard's Bicycle Book, New York: Ballantine Books, page 181. From the entry spindle
• Behind them, the dilapidated settlement lay spread out, a disorderly checkerboard of houses, buildings and streets.1955 November, Philip K[indred] Dick, “Autofac”, in Galaxy Science Fiction, volume 11, number 2, page 87. From the entry autofac
• Metselaar-Berthold, East Germany's version of Nan Goldin, captured scenes of disorderly bohemia (where supposedly none existed) in parties of topless women and pantless men.2009 February 12, Michael Kimmelman, “Art in Two Germanys Often Spoke the Same Tongue”, in New York Times. From the entry pantless
• Whereas delinquency correlates with treatment, psychotherapy, and correction, the category of the disorderly is more closely associated with a militaristic method of rectification.2001, Bernard E. Harcourt, chapter 5, in Illusion of Order. From the entry rectification
• Sixteen men were charged as inmates of a disorderly house and the cashier was arrested as the keeper of a disorderly house.1981 August 22, Larry Goldsmith, “Theater Sex Charges Dropped”, in Gay Community News, volume 9, number 6, page 1. From the entry disorderly house
• In these days of multitudinous scripts and leisureless producers, many a play probably fails of a hearing because of a disorderly or confusing appearance.1915, Charlton Andrews, The technique of play writing. From the entry leisureless
• For Mrs Blythe had confided once to Ann, and Ann had ultimately reconfided to Halloran, the story of how her husband had walked disorderly with a domestic in Portsmouth.2016, Thomas Keneally, Bring Larks and Heroes, →ISBN. From the entry reconfide
• The first significant implication is that the category of the disorderly may not be pre-political, but may itself be constructed through lengthy processes of policing and punitive practice.2001, Bernard E. Harcourt, chapter 6, in Illusion of Order. From the entry prepolitical
• A gay man accused of disorderly conduct for posting publicity for a Boston gay event was found not guilty in Cambridge District Court on July 22.1979 August 11, “Man Found Not Guilty”, in Gay Community News, volume 7, number 4, page 2. From the entry publicity
• In the writings of Banfield, Wilson, and the New Progressives, the present-oriented, the wicked and the disorderly are portrayed as being abnormal―as being in need of normalization, control, and supervision.2001, Bernard E. Harcourt, Illusion of Order. From the entry normalization

Meaning of disorderly

1. adjective Not in order; marked by disorder or disarray.
2. adjective Not acting in an orderly way, as the functions of the body or mind.
3. adjective Not complying with the restraints of order and law; unruly; lawless.

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How do you use disorderly in a sentence?

Disorderly is used as an adjective, noun and adverb. For example: “The books and papers are in a disorderly state.”

What is a short sentence with disorderly?

“a disorderly house”

What does disorderly mean?

Disorderly means not in order; marked by disorder or disarray.