roistered

Definition of roisterednext
past tense of roister
as in birled
to take part in drunken revelry the earl's wastrel son had spent the best part of his youth roistering and gambling

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  • At the parties, both boys and girls drank excessively, often leading to vomiting.
    Robert Salonga, Mercury News, 28 May 2026
  • Specifically, that time Lestat drank Jesus Christ’s blood.
    Bethy Squires, Vulture, 25 May 2026
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  • While hundreds reveled at Thursday night’s all-out bash for The Pierre hotel’s 95th anniversary, some of the building’s tenants in the floors above haven’t been feeling quite as celebratory.
    Rosemary Feitelberg, Footwear News, 21 Nov. 2025
  • In the party scene, though, there would be plenty of swooping camera movements as the guests revelled.
    Margaret Talbot, New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2025
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  • Audiences had binged Tiger King in 2020, following the lead-up to Joe Exotic’s conviction for hiring someone to kill Carole Baskin, his competitor in the big cat world.
    Andrea Marks, Rolling Stone, 25 May 2026
  • Some were built to be binged, engineered for the streaming era when a full season premiered at once, and some were designed as limited series.
    Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 24 Mar. 2026
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“Roistered.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/roistered. Accessed 4 Jun. 2026.

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