- (of people or behaviour) showing lack of control; publicly noisy or violent
- disorderly behaviour
- A disorderly crowd had gathered outside the embassy.
- untidy
- newspapers in a disorderly pile by the door
opposite orderly
Idioms
See disorderly in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionarydrunk and disorderly (law)
- behaving in a noisy or violent way in a public place because you are drunk
- Police arrested him for being drunk and disorderly.
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