rowdyish

Definition of rowdyishnext

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Adjective
  • This was a riotous, thrilling way to bring the curtain down on a five-and-a-half week spell which could come to define their entire season come May.
    Beren Cross, New York Times, 8 Jan. 2026
  • Guns is an actor and writer, known for her razor-sharp observations and riotous voice.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 6 Jan. 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
  • 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
  • A little lowly courier work, yes, but nothing more raffish than that.
    Anthony Lane, New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • The changes follow several years of strict measures after a series of rowdy and sometimes violent spring break incidents in 2021.
    Ivan Taylor, CBS News, 6 Feb. 2026
  • Hisatsune was at 5 under after two birdies on the front nine, then electrified the rowdy crowds by going 6 under in a five-hole stretch — highlighted by his chip-in at 17 — to reach 11-under 131.
    Dallas Morning News, Dallas Morning News, 6 Feb. 2026
Adjective
  • After two weeks of filming in Kansas City, the cast and crew of ended their stay in Kansas City with a boisterous wrap party in a private karaoke suite at Offkey in Westport.
    Lisa Gutierrez, Kansas City Star, 3 Feb. 2026
  • Koreatown’s many casual but boisterous offerings also await.
    Arati Menon, Condé Nast Traveler, 30 Jan. 2026
Adjective
  • He is most known for catch opposing point guards off-guard with steals from behind in the back court, a move sure to elicit a raucous, standing ovation when performed for the first time in front of the Madison Square Garden faithful.
    Kristian Winfield, New York Daily News, 5 Feb. 2026
  • Nashville scored to take the lead, and hit the post, within the opening minute of the middle frame, pushing the Wild back on their heels and getting the raucous crowd back in the game.
    Jess Myers, Twin Cities, 5 Feb. 2026
Adjective
  • But by the mid-1930s, Soviet leaders sensed that people needed something to take the edge off in the dead of winter, a carnivalesque custom of the sort that Christmas once provided.
    Andrew Fedorov, The Atlantic, 31 Dec. 2025
  • The film’s centerpiece is a chaotic, carnivalesque parade of surrealistic characters marching through Tokyo.
    Eric Vilas-Boas, Vulture, 31 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Wallace’s piscine material is much more successful in this rambunctious, dynamic, take-it-or-leave-it novelistic form than in his fish-out-of-water public performance, years later, before the class of 2005.
    Hermione Hoby, New Yorker, 26 Jan. 2026
  • The rambunctious 4-year-old – who loved mud and getting dressed up and having dance parties with her brother and sisters – died January 6, after the flu and a co-infection with an adenovirus turned into pneumonia and sepsis.
    Brenda Goodman, CNN Money, 16 Jan. 2026
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“Rowdyish.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rowdyish. Accessed 8 Feb. 2026.

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