rampageous

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Adjective
  • In a riotous turn, Beverly played her role as Duncan’s fake date with inappropriate panache.
    Paula Mejía, The Atlantic, 3 May 2026
  • Because of the riotous abundance of color.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 29 Apr. 2026
Adjective
  • Customers at Starbucks will be introduced to a new interface with a carnival-style wheel.
    Anna Kaufman, USA TODAY, 30 Mar. 2023
  • Transform your salad spinner into a carnival-style spin art machine.
    Lauren Piro, Good Housekeeping, 31 Oct. 2022
Adjective
  • Reuters — The Republican speaker of Tennessee’s House of Representatives on Tuesday stripped Democratic lawmakers of all committee assignments as punishment for their role in boisterous protests during last week’s special session on redistricting.
    CNN Money, CNN Money, 13 May 2026
  • When hearing another boisterous laugh.
    Joel Lorenzi, New York Times, 7 May 2026
Adjective
  • In this embryonic North American colony, Grietje and Anthony Jansen van Salee (that is, Anthony Jansen from the Moroccan port of Salé), as he was now commonly known, or Anthony the Turk as some called him, were raucous to say the least.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 14 May 2026
  • The end of the Colorado legislative session often is raucous and tense.
    Nick Coltrain, Denver Post, 14 May 2026
Adjective
  • If Pan American Airways represented, at its height, victory and suavity, the country achieving a kind of European state of grace, then Spirit was the exact opposite—synonymous with the rowdy and the rude at the heart of the American character.
    Doreen St. Félix, New Yorker, 9 May 2026
  • Everyone — including smitten Ethan and her rowdy pack of pals — think this is a bad idea.
    Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 7 May 2026
Adjective
  • Slain Supervisor Harvey Milk is raffish in his bust, tossing his head back with his necktie askance — the image is taken from a famous Dan Niccoleto photograph in front of the Castro Camera store.
    J.K. Dineen, San Francisco Chronicle, 11 Dec. 2025
  • Three or four decades ago, the newspaperman was appealingly raffish—at once a bum who drank too much and a knight-errant who charged unafraid at social injustice, succored the weak, and crossed lances with the powerful and arrogant.
    David Wingrave, Harpers Magazine, 24 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • The atmosphere, for a while, was carnivalesque.
    Jazz Monroe, Pitchfork, 6 Apr. 2026
  • Participants take over city streets for a carnivalesque monthly ride, contesting cars’ dominance.
    Livia Gershon, JSTOR Daily, 5 Mar. 2026
Adjective
  • Fortunately God gave her a rambunctious voice and unwavering confidence.
    Ilana Frost, PEOPLE, 11 May 2026
  • The rambunctious anniversary parties.
    Joe Nguyen, Denver Post, 4 May 2026
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“Rampageous.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rampageous. Accessed 17 May. 2026.

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