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
The people here seem inclined to be rather rowdyish in their reception of a Ferenghi without an escort.
From Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume 1 From San Francisco to Teheran by Thomas Stevens
Four or five of the rowdyish crowd picked up sticks that they had carried through the forest that afternoon.
From The Grammar School Boys Snowbound or, Dick & Co. at Winter Sports by H. Irving (Harrie Irving) Hancock
They had no idea that the crowd about the pavilion was rowdyish.
From The Corner House Girls on a Tour Where they went, what they saw, and what they found by Grace Brooks Hill
Her manner was studiedly rowdyish, her speech marred by slang; she loved only a few persons in the world besides herself.
From The Heart of Rachael by Kathleen Thompson Norris
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