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

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

May's back, however, and Jenny's perpetual riotousness caused her many misgivings.

From Carnival by MacKenzie, Compton

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)

Dryden never learned moderation in his humour; there is a student’s clumsiness and extravagance in his indecency; the plays of Etheredge, a man of the world, have not the uncouth riotousness of Dryden’s.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 7 "Drama" to "Dublin" by Various