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[ adjective ] produced or growing in extreme abundance
Examples "their riotous blooming" Used in print (Brainard Cheney, "Christianity and the Tragic Vision-Ut...)The riotous onrush of industrialism after the War_for_Southern_Independence and the general secular drift to the Religion_of_Humanity , however , prepared the way for a reception of the French_Revolution 's socialistic offspring of one sort of another . Related terms |
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[ adjective ] characterized by unrest or disorder or insubordination
Synonyms Examples "effects of the struggle will be violent and disruptive" "riotous times" "these troubled areas" "the tumultuous years of his administration" "a turbulent and unruly childhood" Related terms |
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[ adjective ] unrestrained by convention or morality
Examples "Congreve draws a debauched aristocratic society" "deplorably dissipated and degraded" "riotous living" "fast women" Related terms |
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