Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for robustious
Adjective
  • The bar queues remain orderly, the chat is boisterous, but body odour is now rife.
    Tim Spiers, New York Times, 11 July 2025
  • At a boisterous court hearing Monday, America’s largest for-profit prison company asked a Kansas judge to reconsider whether it should be allowed to reopen its shuttered Leavenworth prison as an immigrant detention center.
    Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 8 July 2025
Adjective
  • Colbert also announced the cancellation to his own audience on Thursday's episode of The Late Show, which was greeted with a raucous round of booing.
    Ryan Coleman, EW.com, 18 July 2025
  • The course last hosted The Open in 2019, when Shane Lowry triumphed in front of a raucous home crowd.
    Devlina Sarkar, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 July 2025
Adjective
  • But this new version of Krypto is both very powerful and very rambunctious, and Superman has trouble training him, much to the amusement of Superman’s peers like Batman.
    Daniel Dockery, Vulture, 11 July 2025
  • Our new dogs, Coal and Pepper, are littermates, 2-year-old black-and-white Lab mixes, very curious and rambunctious.
    Michael Barnes, Austin American Statesman, 2 July 2025
Adjective
  • The doc contains lots of footage of the rowdy crowd.
    Olivia B. Waxman, Time, 8 July 2025
  • More toward the rowdy end are the closet-sized bars of Shinjuku’s Golden Gai, a warren of grungy alleys home to snug drinking holes with obscure themes and idiosyncratic bartender-owners.
    Jessica Kozuka, Travel + Leisure, 6 July 2025
Adjective
  • Around this time, the outfit’s quirky, lightly rumbustious songs began to resonate across British press and radio; accessible while containing a marked dose of strangeness, Fontaine’s songwriting – at once emotionally raw and witty – boasted a strong multi-generational appeal.
    Sophie Williams, Billboard, 8 May 2025
  • The movie is both exquisite and rumbustious, stylized and energized.
    Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 5 May 2022
Adjective
  • The world is crowded, noisy, and sometimes hostile.
    F. Willis Johnson, Twin Cities, 10 July 2025
  • The negatives included noisy wheels and some faulty stitching.
    Olivia Young, Travel + Leisure, 9 July 2025
Adjective
  • The two got married, had a baby, and started a quiet life together far away from his violent past.
    Allison DeGrushe Published, EW.com, 14 July 2025
  • As droves of tourists continue to flock to Spain for European summer vacations, the nation’s emergency responders are dealing with the aftermath of a violent wave of flash flooding in nearly half of the country’s 50 provinces.
    Opheli Garcia Lawler, Travel + Leisure, 14 July 2025
Adjective
  • Joy’s jazzy, smoky version of the Marvin Gaye classic, coupled with her velvety vocals, sparked another rollicking ovation led by John who was the first to stand up.
    Gail Mitchell, Billboard, 4 Feb. 2023
  • His setlist, a rollicking walk-down-memory-lane of solo hits, NKOTB favorites, standards, show tunes and cover songs, showcased his range as an entertainer, musical virtuoso and keen collaborator.
    Sonal Dutt, Peoplemag, 23 Jan. 2023
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“Robustious.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/robustious. Accessed 22 Jul. 2025.

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