Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In a riotous manner.
  • With licentious revelry or debauchery.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adverb In a riotous manner.
  • adverb In a manner that causes uncontrollable laughter.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adverb in an exuberant manner
  • adverb in a tumultuous and riotous manner

Etymologies

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From riotous +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • Those right-wing rattle raisin 'riotously rancorous demagogues need their brains washed w/turpentine.

    CNN Poll: Americans divided on President's health care plans 2009

  • Though Andrew Barrow says, towards the end of this eccentric, candid and riotously funny book, that he hasn't thought about his brother Jonathan for years, and that there are friends of the family who don't even know of Jonathan's existence, Animal Magic is a brilliantly mercurial account of Barrow's obsession with his younger brother.

    Animal Magic: A Brother's Story by Andrew Barrow – review 2011

  • I wanted something corrosive, something frivolous, something riotously fun and energetic.

    An Interview with Johanna Sinisalo marshallpayne1 2009

  • The Riots Damages Act 1886 specifies that if damage is caused by people "riotously and tumultuously assembled", local police authorities are required to compensate victims.

    UK riots: London in lockdown, but violence flares across UK 2011

  • *** Mr. Rauch's version of "The Pirates of Penzance" is another superior staging, a farcical romp that benefits from the lively choreography of Randy Duncan and the riotously colorful costumes of Deborah M. Dryden.

    The Glorious Tragedy of Julia Caesar Terry Teachout 2011

  • The contrast between Ms. Twyford's tightly crossed legs and the long arms that she flings about like the tentacles of a carnivorous octopus is both riotously funny and downright frightening.

    Smile as the Bomb Goes Off Terry Teachout 2011

  • Because of that, and sometimes despite it, the film is often riotously funny.

    DVD Review: The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard « Screaming Blue Reviews 2009

  • The Roman poet Juvenal, whose classical-period "Satires" of gluttonous bluebloods could have been written last week, is riotously funny and risqué.

    Gift Guide: Humor Dave Shiflett 2011

  • I spent it in Paris, with my best friend, at a riotously funny house party, with champagne and dancing, haggis, gatecrashers and an ice cube fight.

    Diary of a separation 2012

  • The Baltimore Ravens' Anquan Boldin had a riotously good time with him there.

    Keys to the Big Game Aditi Kinkhabwala 2012

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