riotous
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The Tour has fixed something in Paris: taking what used to be a mostly-dull pedal around the cobbles of the Champs-Élysées and adding a riotous, repeat ascent which separates the best riders from the crowd.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 27, 2026
The stumping that led to Sooryavanshi lying on his back was an anti-climactic end to what could have been riotous entertainment.
From BBC ● Jul. 4, 2026
“Egg nog is kind of like me — it’s not for everyone, but the people who like it are my kind of people,” he said to riotous applause.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 21, 2025
But in “A Child’s Christmas in Wales,” his riotous narrative inspired by his boyhood yuletides in the 1920s, Dylan Thomas serves up a dissenting version of the holiday as a merry mess.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 19, 2025
Ruby appeared in an arch of the arcade, looking like one more orchid in the forest, her slim form a stem upholding a bloom of riotous hair.
From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor
Vocabulary lists containing riotous
"The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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"The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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President Biden's Inaugural Speech (January 2021)
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