uproarious

• It was uproarious, and not because it intended to be. —  LUKE IS BACK
• The BKAD was uproarious, and I got to see a "Fract" for the first time. —  No Fact Zone
• He has set twenty-two of Shakespeare's lyrics to music of the old English school, such as his uproarious "Let me the cannikin clink," and his dainty "Tell me where is fancy bred The Lark" is written in the pentatonic scale, with accompaniment for two flutes and a harp In the same vein are various songs of Herrick, a lyrist whose verse is not usually congenial to the modern music-maker. —  Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and Compositions
• On the present occasion, for instance, the brothers apologized for being unable to show us the grand saloon, as the weavers (whom we could hear, while he spoke, singing in a loud, uproarious, insurgent kind of way, that might well have drawn three souls out of one of their own craft, and evidently made the souls of their two landlords quail) did not like to be disturbed Their contumacious voices, mingled with the clamor of their looms, died off in the distance, while we proceeded down the back staircase to the ground-floor. —  The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 107, September, 1866
• It looks as though they were all drunk As they drew near, sounds of singing--uproarious discord--reached them, and soon they could see with the naked eye that the men on the bark were wrestling, dancing, and running about Quarters, sir?" —  "Where Angels Fear to Tread" and Other Stories of the Sea

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