maenadic

• Lynch, a torch in her hand, her hair in maenadic dishevelment, leading on a mob to set fire to a town. —  The Dust Flower
• The prim, obliterated, polite surface of life, and the broad, bawdy and orgiastic -- or maenadic -- foundations, form a spectacle to which no habit reconciles me. —  Varieties of Religious Experience, a Study in Human Nature
• When he and his brothers arrived at Heathrow in 1972 they were set upon by maenadic teenyboppers, who tore clumps of hair from Jermaine's scalp, robbed Michael of a shoe and almost choked him by tugging the opposite ends of his scarf.) —  Culture | guardian.co.uk

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