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

In his rampageous life his tongue had usually served him better than his fists.

From The Skipper and the Skipped Being the Shore Log of Cap'n Aaron Sproul by Day, Holman

That household consisted of the master, whose manner was what old ladies in Lincolnshire call "rampageous," the children, who were, beyond doubt, hopelessly dull, and the mistress, who was colourless.

From Punch, or the London Charivari. Volume 93, September 10, 1887 by Various