raucous
adjective
harsh; strident; grating.
raucousness
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a word derived from
raucous.
Example Sentences
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This is the afterglow of a celebration, the vibrant hues—caution-tape yellow and highlighter green—testifying to a party, the exhausted forms evidence of its raucousness.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026
Fight week in Riyadh has been strikingly different to the enchantment of a Vegas fight week or the raucousness of a UK stadium showdown.
From BBC ● Mar. 7, 2024
Robert Earl Keen’s Friday show at the Birchmere, on a tour designed to let the Texas troubadour say farewell to fans and vice versa, was full of melancholy raucousness.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 24, 2022
The series has much the same raucousness as Döblin’s novel, if not its tricky structure, not to mention a series of emphatically ecstatic musical sequences indebted as much to EDM as to “Cabaret.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 22, 2020
An apparent repetition of which statement he immediately made with equal raucousness in two or three languages.
From The Making of Bobby Burnit Being a Record of the Adventures of a Live American Young Man by James Montgomery Flagg
