disorderly behavior

1. 1.

   any act of molesting, interrupting, hindering, agitating, or arousing from a state of repose or otherwise depriving inhabitants of the peace and quiet to which they are entitled

   Synonymsdisorderly conductdisturbance of the peacebreach of the peace

   Broadermisdemeanor

Questions about disorderly behavior

What does disorderly behavior mean?

disorderly behavior means "any act of molesting, interrupting, hindering, agitating, or arousing from a state of repose or otherwise depriving inhabitants of the peace and quiet to which they are entitled".

What is another word for disorderly behavior?

Close synonyms include disorderly conduct, disturbance of the peace, breach of the peace. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is disorderly behavior a common word?

disorderly behavior is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.