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Recent Examples of rowdiness
The rowdiness represented the first wave of an Alaskan storm that drew extra moisture from the subtropics.
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Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Feb. 2026
Fan rowdiness and team expectations on a professional football game day is paired with the expectations National Football League players put on themselves.
—Eileen Falkenberg-Hull, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 Nov. 2025
While growing up, Linville and her twin sister would often go to their aunt Kathy Tyson’s house in West Allis, to escape the rowdiness of having so many brothers and sisters.
—Alyssa N. Salcedo, jsonline.com, 25 Sep. 2025
Deklan Locke started falling down, something his parents initially dismissed as rowdiness.
—Beth Warren, The Tennessean, 10 Aug. 2025
Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Feb. 2026
Fan rowdiness and team expectations on a professional football game day is paired with the expectations National Football League players put on themselves.
—Eileen Falkenberg-Hull, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 Nov. 2025
While growing up, Linville and her twin sister would often go to their aunt Kathy Tyson’s house in West Allis, to escape the rowdiness of having so many brothers and sisters.
—Alyssa N. Salcedo, jsonline.com, 25 Sep. 2025
Deklan Locke started falling down, something his parents initially dismissed as rowdiness.
—Beth Warren, The Tennessean, 10 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for rowdiness
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But the brutishness has merely relocated, to places far more dangerous.—
Ian Buruma,
New Yorker,
23 Feb. 2026
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Likewise, young Waller proves a revelation, capable of communicating Danny’s vulnerability and brutishness on the turn of a dime.—
Leslie Felperin,
HollywoodReporter,
7 Sep. 2025
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Apologies for any churlishness, but those in and around the club will be relieved to have removed an annoying factoid from Amorim’s 11-month tenure.—
Carl Anka,
New York Times,
19 Oct. 2025
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At the center of the ranch is a 5,800-square-foot lodge that combines classic Rocky Mountain rusticity with Old World European elegance.—
Abby Montanez,
Robb Report,
22 Sep. 2025
Noun
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One of Lamont’s unacknowledged strengths is his public composure and innate courtesy in an era when escalating vulgarity in politics shows an ugly American face to us and the world.—
Kevin Rennie,
Hartford Courant,
7 Feb. 2026
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Hungerstone is a delicious tribute to the inherent horrors of womanhood and the desperate and exquisite vulgarity of desire.—
Gabrielle Bellot,
Literary Hub,
2 Feb. 2026
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But only those who had been woken up without warning with a degree of rudeness would remember this night when their own time came.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
20 Feb. 2026
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People do not generally express rudeness through presents.—
Judith Martin,
Mercury News,
10 Feb. 2026
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Taking inspiration from observing the rawness of Ma Tei’s Temple Street, the collectionmerges haute couture tailoring with the roughness of grassroots life.—
Fairchild Studio,
Footwear News,
18 Feb. 2026
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The term plant texture refers to the fineness or coarseness, roughness or smoothness, heaviness or lightness of a particular plant.—
David Beaulieu,
The Spruce,
15 Feb. 2026
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The comments section features a piquant blend of solemnity, mortification, tastelessness, and transphobia, which accords with Moreschi’s reception in his lifetime.—
Dan Piepenbring,
Harpers Magazine,
27 Jan. 2026
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So, after the sombrero drew hearty guffaws, my friend Jim busied himself finding monuments to chip-and-dip tastelessness.—
Lee Michael Katz,
USA Today,
20 Dec. 2025
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The Trump era is one of indelicacy, profanity, and real—not imagined—misogyny, and its flacks deserve a language that matches up.—
Josephine Livingstone,
The New Republic,
5 June 2018
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Trump added, seemingly referring to the indelicacy of directly attacking a war hero who is fighting brain cancer.—
Callum Borchers,
Washington Post,
28 Feb. 2018
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“Rowdiness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rowdiness. Accessed 27 Feb. 2026.
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