riotous
adjective
(of an act) characterized by or of the nature of rioting or a disturbance of the peace.
riotousness
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a word derived from
riotous.
Example Sentences
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Alcuin told the first holy Roman emperor to ignore such declarations of public godliness “since the riotousness of the crowd is always very close to madness.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 24, 2024
Why should they wear their lives out so that a rapacious landlord whom they never saw should live in riotousness and debauchery in the hells of London or the Continent?
From Ireland Since Parnell by D. D. (Daniel Desmond) Sheehan
There was an awful insolence, a ribald riotousness in some of the oaths which redeemed them from the scorn which every well-balanced mind should feel for displays of petulance.
From Romantic Spain A Record of Personal Experiences (Vol. I) by John Augustus O'Shea
Dryden never learned moderation in his humour; there is a student’s clumsiness and extravagance in his indecency; the plays of Etheredge, a man of the world, have not the uncouth riotousness of Dryden’s.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 7 "Drama" to "Dublin" by Various
It was sure to him that he must set his influence against this unorganized day of waste and riotousness.
From The Girl at the Halfway House A Story of the Plains by Emerson Hough
