rowdyism

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

The Eagle was of the opinion that architecture could influence behavior, noting in 1893 that there was “much less rowdyism and general law breaking in the 18th Precinct than a few years ago.”

From New York Times • Mar. 20, 2011

Last week the British in Nyasaland were faced with the most ominous outbreak of mass disobedience and rowdyism since David Livingstone, Bible in hand, discovered the lush valley 94 years ago.

From Time Magazine Archive

Under Durocher, such rowdyism is a deliberate way of life.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Way of a Transgressor, with its tone of amiable rowdyism, will remind readers of Bruce Lockhart's British Agent.

From Time Magazine Archive

The man who furnishes his son a billiard table in his own house, where he can practice that beautiful game with his friends without the adjuncts of liquor and rowdyism, does a good deed.

From Amusement: A Force in Christian Training by Vincent, Marvin Richardson