rowdyish
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New Plays Honeymooning is a rowdyish jamboree, in which only the naive may find a modicum of unsophisticated amusement.
From Time Magazine Archive
Even little girls, divining his abjectness, were prone to act rowdyish with him.
From Bunker Bean by Wilson, Harry Leon
And his bearing, his mustache, and his low hat, tipped rakishly over one ear, gave him an arrogant, pretentious, rowdyish appearance.
From The Count's Millions by Gaboriau, Émile
He emphasizes in himself the traits which he shares with workingmen, sailors, soldiers, and those who live in the open air, even laying claim to the "rowdyish."
From Whitman A Study by Burroughs, John
On a wooded hillside, where grew a profusion of trailing arbutus, pink azalea, and bird-foot violets, the rowdyish, great-crested flycatchers were screaming in the tree-tops.
From Birds in the Bush by Torrey, Bradford
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