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Noun: disorderly behavior
  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
    "The rowdy group was arrested for disorderly behavior after causing a disturbance in the neighbourhood";
    - disorderly conduct, disturbance of the peace, breach of the peace

Derived forms: disorderly behaviors

Type of: infraction, infringement, misdemeanor [US], misdemeanour [Brit, Cdn], violation