rowdyish

Definition of rowdyishnext

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Adjective
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Even the raucous calls of American crows are fewer and further between.
    Sarah Kaplan, Washington Post, 26 Feb. 2026
  • The players have also learned to channel the raucous crowd to their advantage.
    Ishmael Johnson, Dallas Morning News, 25 Feb. 2026
Adjective
  • But in its political culture the corruption was inescapable, and, like the city itself, carnivalesque.
    James Verini, New Yorker, 2 Mar. 2026
  • 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
Adjective
  • Clever, funny and visually appealing, Daniel Chong’s nutty action comedy zips along, driven by rambunctious energy and a spirited Mark Mothersbaugh score.
    David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 2 Mar. 2026
  • For months, this young, rambunctious, and altogether infectious bunch played with house money, thumbing their collective noses at the idea of another year of rebuild futility.
    Dieter Kurtenbach, Mercury News, 27 Feb. 2026
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“Rowdyish.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rowdyish. Accessed 6 Mar. 2026.

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