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

There was an awful insolence, a ribald riotousness in some of the oaths which redeemed them from the scorn which every well-balanced mind should feel for displays of petulance.

From Romantic Spain A Record of Personal Experiences (Vol. I) by O'Shea, John Augustus

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)

There ensued forthwith as terrible a battle as one would wish to see if battles were gaged by volume of noise and riotousness of action.

From Pellucidar by Burroughs, Edgar Rice