DISORDERLY CONDUCT

IPA (US):

 Dictionary entry overview: What does disorderly conduct mean? 

• DISORDERLY CONDUCT (noun)
  The noun DISORDERLY CONDUCT has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: DISORDERLY CONDUCT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DISORDERLY CONDUCT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

breach of the peace; disorderly behavior; disorderly conduct; disturbance of the peace

Hypernyms ("disorderly conduct" is a kind of...):

infraction; infringement; misdemeanor; misdemeanour; violation (a crime less serious than a felony)

 Context examples 

It was a great jest of his, I recollect, to pretend that he couldn't keep his teeth from chattering, whenever mention was made of an Alguazill in connexion with the adventures of Gil Blas; and I remember that when Gil Blas met the captain of the robbers in Madrid, this unlucky joker counterfeited such an ague of terror, that he was overheard by Mr. Creakle, who was prowling about the passage, and handsomely flogged for disorderly conduct in the bedroom.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)