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US
/ənˈɡəvɝnəbəɫ/
]
[ UK /ʌnɡˈʌvənəbəl/ ]
[ UK /ʌnɡˈʌvənəbəl/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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incapable of being controlled
the little boy's parents think he is spirited, but his teacher finds him unruly
How To Use ungovernable In A Sentence
- The country has become virtually ungovernable.
- And, sure enough, there was Kennedy, with rueful face and a maudlin romaunt about a moonlit meeting with a swarm of painted Sioux, over which the stable guard were making merry and stirring the trooper's soul to wrath ungovernable. A Daughter of the Sioux A Tale of the Indian frontier
- Management of his fissiparous, some would say ungovernable, party will be not the least of his challenges. Times, Sunday Times
- But the question remains, as a seemingly ungovernable party continues to languish in electoral obscurity and tear itself apart, whether the smack of firm leadership will be enough to save the Scottish Tories.
- Henry was nineteen years old, bull-necked, stocky and freckled, a man of electric energy and ferocious impatience, compelling charm and an ungovernable temper.
- But the unmistakable impression is that they are now putting short-term partisanship ahead of good policy by trying to make the House ungovernable.
- The old, round, ungovernable army-surplus chutes - the ones that sent people drifting into trees and breaking both legs - are gone.
- Too many thoughts, too many emotions, all of them ungovernable. THE THORN BIRDS
- The idea that this one rule permits the minority that only represents a third of the country to render the country ungovernable is simply true Matthew Yglesias » Ungovernable America
- Tex stared down at the scarlet furrow that had appeared on his forearm and was filled with an ungovernable rage. THE FIVE MILLION DOLLAR PRINCE