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  • 51ungovernableness — (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun The quality or condition of being unruly: dis orderhness, fractiousness, indocility, intractability, intractableness, obstinacy, obstinateness, obstreperousness, recalcitrance, recalcitrancy, refractoriness,… …

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  • 52unmanageability — (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun The quality or condition of being unruly: dis orderliness, fractiousness, indocility, intractability, intractableness, obstinacy, obstinateness, obstreperousness, recalcitrance, recalcitrancy, refractoriness,… …

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  • 53untowardness — (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun 1. Bad fortune: adversity, haplessness, misfortune, unfortunateness, unluckiness. See LUCK. 2. The quality or condition of being unruly: disorderliness, fractiousness, indocility, intractability, intractableness,… …

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  • 54wildness — (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun 1. An uninhabited region left in its natural state: bush, wild, wilderness. See WILD. 2. The quality or condition of being unruly: disorderliness, fractiousness, indocility, intractability, intractableness, obstinacy,… …

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  • 55intractable — [ɪn traktəb(ə)l] adjective hard to control or deal with. ↘(of a person) difficult or stubborn. Derivatives intractability noun intractableness noun intractably adverb …

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  • 56indocility — n. Unteachableness, indocibleness, indocibility, intractableness, stubbornness, obstinacy, mulishness …

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  • 57intractability — n. Stubbornness, obstinacy, perverseness, intractableness. See following adjective …

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  • 58sullenness — n. 1. Moroseness, moodiness, sourness, churlishness, spleen, sulkiness, ill temper, bad blood. 2. Gloominess, sombreness, dismalness. 3. Sluggishness, slowness, heaviness. 4. Obstinacy, intractableness, stubbornness, intractability. 5. Malignity …

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  • 59churlishness — n 1. rusticity, ruralism, agrarianism; pastoralism, pastorality, bucolicism; inurbanity, back woodsiness, provincialism, provinciality, yokelism, Sl. hickishness; hominess, homeliness, homishness, Inf. folksiness. 2. boorishness, loutishness,… …

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  • 60contumacy — n 1. perverseness, perversity, perversion, contrariety, frowardness, refractoriness, wrong headedness; obstinacy, stubbornness, mulishness, pig headedness, bullheadedness; willfulness, intractableness, doggedness, obduracy; intransigence,… …

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