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
"Teall, we might expect something rowdyish from your crowd of muckers," declared Martin scornfully, as the sides changed.
From The Grammar School Boys in Summer Athletics by H. Irving (Harrie Irving) Hancock
It seemed probable that I should be shopped by Mrs. Effie for what she had been led to believe was my rowdyish behaviour.
From Ruggles of Red Gap by Harry Leon Wilson
While this exchange of pleasantries took place between the two Ralph Touchett wandered away a little, with his usual slouching gait, his hands in his pockets and his little rowdyish terrier at his heels.
From The Portrait of a Lady — Volume 1 by Henry James
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
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