riotous

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  1. adjective Of, relating to, or resembling a riot.
  2. adjective Participating in or inciting to riot or uproar.
  3. adjective Uproarious; boisterous: a riotous party.

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  • His six children became unavoidably neglected and riotous, and his business, started on the wreck of the old one, again came to the brink of failure. —  Under the Waves Diving in Deep Waters
  • Yes, it is the same Raikes; Larkyn no more--riotous no more--brandivorous no longer. —  The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 2, January, 1851
  • It was a howling mob, elately riotous, and already infected by the virus of the goldophobia Oh, it was good to get on deck of a night, away from this saturnalia, to watch the beacon stars strewn vastly in the skyey uplift, to listen to the ancient threnody of the outcast sea. —  The Trail of '98 A Northland Romance
  • A riotous, evil-minded darkey, who attended to my washing, had got into a fight, and was forthwith conveyed to the Bull-pen, or military prison. —  Memoirs
  • It did not appear to be very riotous, nor was its approach accompanied by any foaming of the water, or other indications which usually mark the approach of heavy squalls. —  The Medallic History of the United States of America 1776-1876
 

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  1. from Middle English riotous, from Old French *riotos, riotoux, rioteux = Italian riottoso (Middle Latin riotosus); as riot + -ous.
 

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