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Adjective
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After 40 years beachside (and gaining a casual, semi-riotous rep for all the day-drinking amid the sand and surf), the Independent Spirit Awards has shacked up at the Hollywood Palladium.—
Anna Cafolla,
Vogue,
16 Feb. 2026 -
The quest to fathom the riotous diversity of nature is absorbingly told in a virtual double biography of the great taxonomist Carl Linnaeus and his contemporary, the count of Buffon.—
Ian Tattersall,
The New York Review of Books,
5 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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Customers at Starbucks will be introduced to a new interface with a carnival-style wheel.—
Anna Kaufman,
USA TODAY,
30 Mar. 2023
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Transform your salad spinner into a carnival-style spin art machine.—
Lauren Piro,
Good Housekeeping,
31 Oct. 2022
Adjective
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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
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A little lowly courier work, yes, but nothing more raffish than that.—
Anthony Lane,
New Yorker,
8 Sep. 2025
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After his release, LaBeouf was seen drinking a beer and posing with fans while watching the rowdy festivities.—
Cheyenne Roundtree,
Rolling Stone,
26 Feb. 2026
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For generations, the Peso has remained familiar, whether for an afternoon beer and a round of pool, a rowdy nightcap, a rite-of-passage drink after turning 21 or the annual Thanksgiving Eve reunion revelry.—
Leanne Battelle,
Mercury News,
24 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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The reactions over this week’s snowball fight were similar to those that followed a 2019 episode during a heat wave, when boisterous young people engaged in water fights were recorded on video tossing water at police officers.—
Anthony Izaguirre,
Fortune,
26 Feb. 2026
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As players and the club work to be the best women’s soccer team on the planet at 1 Teal Rising Way off of I-635, construction is boisterous and 18-wheelers continuously roll up and down the street across from the complex.—
PJ Green,
Kansas City Star,
25 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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Even the raucous calls of American crows are fewer and further between.—
Sarah Kaplan,
Washington Post,
26 Feb. 2026
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The players have also learned to channel the raucous crowd to their advantage.—
Ishmael Johnson,
Dallas Morning News,
25 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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Soccer nationalism has become largely carnivalesque— a giant costume party, a jokey, theatrical form of chauvinism.—
Ian Buruma,
New Yorker,
23 Feb. 2026
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Kaddu embodies the carnivalesque spirit of the NFL in London, which has been hosting regular-season games since 2007.—
Erin Florio,
Condé Nast Traveler,
10 Feb. 2026
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The rambunctious female calf caught international attention on social media for her precocious antics, including taking a toothless bite of her handler.—
Jose R. Gonzalez,
AZCentral.com,
15 Feb. 2026
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Bagatelle is the slightly more rambunctious option.—
Rebekah Evans,
TheWeek,
5 Feb. 2026
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“Rowdyish.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rowdyish. Accessed 1 Mar. 2026.
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