rampageous

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In front of his desk sits a scale model of the animal that barged its way onstage during his rampageous 2007 production of Ionesco's Rhinoceros; next to it is a memento from Jerusalem.

From The Guardian • Jan. 31, 2011

The play first chronicles a honeymoon in Scranton complicated by Mother's rampageous arrival from New York; it then chronicles household arrangements in New York dislocated by Mother's inching her way into the household.

From Time Magazine Archive

To Betty Hutton, 25, raucous, rampageous cinemactress; and Theodore Briskin, 28: their first child, a daughter; in Hollywood.

From Time Magazine Archive

Indeed, the Adjutant frequently declared that "but for that rampageous young Celt, Carter would never be in trouble."

From Harper's Round Table, September 10, 1895 by Various

"Blow up the trumpet for en," suggested Copstone; "Gabr'el be a vitty lad—none the worse for not being made so rampageous as 'ee, Jan Biddle, for all he do go wool-gathering at whiles."

From With Drake on the Spanish Main by Strang, Herbert