Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a roaring manner; noisily.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In a roaring manner.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb With a
roaring sound.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Still, he struggled with drinking and drugs, developing a reputation for getting roaringly drunk onstage.
Marshall Fine: HuffPost Review: American: The Bill Hicks Story Marshall Fine 2011
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The UK's The Guardian wrote that with his latest work Nicholls "has drawn on all his comic and literary gifts to produce a novel that is not only roaringly funny but also memorable, moving and, in its own unassuming, unpretentious way, rather profound."
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Not because Fey isn't funny -- at times, she is roaringly so -- but rather because she has failed, catastrophically, in creating a popular comedy that comments on American race relations in a manner appropriate for 2010.
Zeeshan Aleem: Is 30 Rock the Most Racist Show on Television? 2010
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I'm really going to miss not seeing the gang this year, hanging out with the smokers like the bad kids at school, getting roaringly drunk and confusing people with my unintelligible accent and slurred rants.
Soundtrack Podcast & Other News Hal Duncan 2008
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I'm really going to miss not seeing the gang this year, hanging out with the smokers like the bad kids at school, getting roaringly drunk and confusing people with my unintelligible accent and slurred rants.
Archive 2008-08-01 Hal Duncan 2008
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The UK's The Guardian wrote that with his latest work Nicholls "has drawn on all his comic and literary gifts to produce a novel that is not only roaringly funny but also memorable, moving and, in its own unassuming, unpretentious way, rather profound."
Archive 2010-07-01 2010
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However, in responding to the news I joked to a colleague 'Did he actually take place?' which, if you know your Baudrillard is rip-roaringly funny.
Archive 2007-03-01 Jonathan 2007
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A second trailer for Mystery Team has arrived online, and while it's not rip roaringly funny, it does have a few amusing moments and some of the set-ups look pretty good, but a lot of them do fall flat.
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A second trailer for Mystery Team has arrived online, and while it's not rip roaringly funny, it does have a few amusing moments and some of the set-ups look pretty good, but a lot of them do fall flat.
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However, in responding to the news I joked to a colleague 'Did he actually take place?' which, if you know your Baudrillard is rip-roaringly funny.
Jean Baudrillard's death did not take place Jonathan 2007
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