rowdy
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Once it did get under way, a rowdy and boisterous audience sat through a ceremony that lasted nearly two and a half hours.
From BBC ● Oct. 27, 2026
On Sunday nights, in the past, the mall could be rowdy.
From Slate ● Oct. 26, 2026
Usually the bar is a rowdy reprieve filled with sweaty bodies and pounding bass lines, with Lo situated behind the DJ decks.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 21, 2026
“They are not rowdy at all. They travel with the idea of understanding the culture, mingling with the locals, buying local arts and crafts,” he said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 12, 2026
I remembered Miss Brown standing in front of a classroom full of rowdy teenagers, some of them taller than she was.
From "When I Was Puerto Rican" by Esmeralda Santiago
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The vast majority of fraternity members are not the drunk rowdies characterized by the movie “Animal House”; in fact, they are serious students and well-behaved gentlemen.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 29, 2021
The other idols of those prelapsarian Mets, the rowdies who won it all in ’86, remain staples of New York media, their successes lionized and their sins reconstrued as locker-room foibles.
From Slate ● Jan. 12, 2020
Jack Whitehall plays passive hero Paul Pennyfeather, a divinity student expelled from Oxford for reasons beyond his control — his clothes were removed by rowdies — and forced to find work.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 15, 2017
Past "Fast and Furious" rowdies such as Tyrese Gibson, Chris "Ludacris" Bridges and Sung Kang join Diesel and company for an "Ocean's Eleven"-style heist romp.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 27, 2011
Carpenter recruited his gang at the saloon, rowdies all.
From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead
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He also warned the US hosts about the rowdier aspects of football support.
From BBC ● Jul. 3, 2026
But there was far less focus on the even rowdier world of “dating” shows aimed at young men.
From Salon ● Nov. 21, 2025
South by Southwest has carved out a specific niche for itself on the festival circuit, a little rowdier and more spirited than the likes of Sundance or Cannes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 6, 2025
Sarah-Mae: After watching “Eras” at 6 p.m. with an audience largely made up of middle schoolers, we opted for an 8 p.m. showing at the U-District AMC, thinking it might draw a rowdier crowd.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 4, 2023
Then, for the rest of the ride, the rowdier kids snored loudly.
From "Clayton Byrd Goes Underground" by Rita Williams-Garcia
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Nebraska’s arena has become one of the rowdiest barns in the Big Ten.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 8, 2026
One of the rowdiest young showmen in rap, Houston’s new champion delivers rough-and-tumble Tejano tales with the sweaty panache of Bun B and Paul Wall.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 15, 2024
Should the Marlins need a tip or two on how to win a postseason game in Philadelphia in front of one of the loudest, rowdiest atmospheres in baseball, they can just ask their manager.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 2, 2023
Phillies fans that turned Citizens Bank Park into the rowdiest postseason party in all of baseball — and a 6-0 postseason record at home before Wednesday — hit the exits in the eighth inning.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 2, 2022
“The winter solstice and the two equinoxes. Midsummer Eve tends to be the rowdiest of them all.”
From "Fablehaven" by Brandon Mull
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