rampageous
Americanadjective
Other Word Forms
- rampageously adverb
- rampageousness noun
Etymology
Origin of rampageous
Example Sentences
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In front of his desk sits a scale model of the animal that barged its way onstage during his rampageous 2007 production of Ionesco's Rhinoceros; next to it is a memento from Jerusalem.
From The Guardian • Jan. 31, 2011
The play first chronicles a honeymoon in Scranton complicated by Mother's rampageous arrival from New York; it then chronicles household arrangements in New York dislocated by Mother's inching her way into the household.
From Time Magazine Archive
To Betty Hutton, 25, raucous, rampageous cinemactress; and Theodore Briskin, 28: their first child, a daughter; in Hollywood.
From Time Magazine Archive
For the Gallic bébé certainly seems less "rampageous" than the English urchin.
From Children's Books and Their Illustrators by White, Gleeson
"Curly's out, you know, and terribly big and rampageous!"
From Second String by Hope, Anthony
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