riotousness

Example Sentences

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Alcuin told the first holy Roman emperor to ignore such declarations of public godliness “since the riotousness of the crowd is always very close to madness.”

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 24, 2024

So the days sped pleasantly and May passed, and June with all its riotousness of roses was upon them.

From Peggy Owen and Liberty by Madison, Lucy Foster

Why should they wear their lives out so that a rapacious landlord whom they never saw should live in riotousness and debauchery in the hells of London or the Continent?

From Ireland Since Parnell by Sheehan, D. D. (Daniel Desmond)

Before him, our liveliness never passed into vulgar riotousness; if we were all melancholy—this half childlike melancholy, in his presence, led on to quiet, sometimes fairly sensible, conversation, and never ended in dejected boredom.

From The Diary of a Superfluous Man and Other Stories by Garnett, Constance

Among the boys the day passed in riotousness.

From The Outlet by Adams, Andy