Riotous
['raɪətəs]
Definition
(a.) Involving, or engaging in, riot; wanton; unrestrained; luxurious.
(a.) Partaking of the nature of an unlawful assembly or its acts; seditious.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Revelling, luxurious, wanton.[2]. Tumultuous, seditious, turbulent, insubordinate, mutinous, rebellious, disorderly, ungovernable, unruly, refractory.
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Examples
- The young girls of Nazareth still collect about it by the dozen and keep up a riotous laughter and sky-larking. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- And so he bids him and his companions depart, just as any other father might drive out of the house a riotous son and his undesirable associates. Plato. The Republic.
- As the son grew a young man, he turned out riotous, extravagant, undutiful,--altogether bad. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- And, at all events, I have erected one thoroughly happy, peaceful spot,—a modern Eden,—and that is no easy thing to do in this riotous century. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- Their repeal was greeted by riotous rejoicings in London, more hearty even than those in the colonies. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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