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ungovernable

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1. ungovernable - Adjective

2. ungovernable - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Not governable; not capable of being governed, ruled, or restrained; licentious; wild; unbridled; as, ungovernable passions.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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The more direct decisions by all the people, all the more ungovernable is the country! Helmut Schmidt

Kings are ambitious; the nobility haughty; and the populace tumultuous and ungovernable. Edmund Burke

An uneducated population may be degraded; a population educated, but not in righteousness, will be ungovernable. The one may be slaves, the other must be tyrants. Henry Melvill

the little boy's parents think he is spirited, but his teacher finds him unruly Source: Internet

Promiscuity in sex gratification is bound to land the aspirant in a most pitiful and dangerous chaos of ungovernable lust." Source: Internet

Draper argues that California has become "nearly ungovernable" because of its diverse economies and population. Source: Internet

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