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disorderly (adj.)
1580s, "opposed to moral order," also "opposed to legal authority;" see
dis-
+
orderly
(adj.). The meaning "untidy" is attested from 1630s; the older senses are those in
disorderly house
,
disorderly conduct
, etc.
