riotous
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The teenage boy was arrested on suspicion of riotous behaviour and has since been released on bail.
From BBC • May 6, 2026
Then in 16 riotous second-half minutes, Danny Levi, Cooper Jenkins, Brodie Croft and Hall added four more tries.
From BBC • Apr. 24, 2026
“Oh, Mary!” offers riotous fun, and “Destiny of Desire” is an homage to an oft-dismissed yet widely consumed medium, the telenovela.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 29, 2026
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
“Yes, centaurs, on Antiok. And many, many more—all the less-known creatures that were in the stories of old—karkadanns and manticores, krakens and kappas and seabulls. It is a riotous, glorious place.”
From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell
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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