rampageous
Americanadjective
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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
To Betty Hutton, 25, raucous, rampageous cinemactress; and Theodore Briskin, 28: their first child, a daughter; in Hollywood.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
I couldn't help hopin'; an' now, when I come to ye so, an' tell ye jest how the land lays, ye git rampageous, or tell me I'm jokin'.
From Sevenoaks by J. G. (Josiah Gilbert) Holland
And with them they brought a quartet of rampageous young buckaroos who promptly turned our sedate homestead into a rodeo.
From The Prairie Child by Ward. E. F. (Edmund Franklin)
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