Adjective : riotous living. ,riotous laughter. From Dictionary.com.
Those right-wing rattle raisin 'riotously rancorous demagogues need their brains washed w/turpentine. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Poll: Americans divided on President's health care plans] Reference
Speech not riotously received — still it was successful. From Wordnik.com. [Reagan, Unscripted] Reference
Yet she is more often than not riotously funny on specifics. From Wordnik.com. [Lefty Radioheads Bite Back] Reference
Many envy the rich, thinking that they can and do live riotously. From Wordnik.com. [Maintaining Health Formerly Health and Efficiency] Reference
To employ an extensive vocabulary riotously is worse than to own none. From Wordnik.com. [Conversation What to Say and How to Say it] Reference
As the floor revolved west, the riotously colorful Westin came into view. From Wordnik.com. [The Demise of Sky-High Dining] Reference
The speeches to-day naturally did not present any features riotously novel. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, February 21, 1891] Reference
The fire was kept burning, though not quite so riotously as in the beginning. From Wordnik.com. [Chums in Dixie or The Strange Cruise of a Motorboat] Reference
So riotously had these grown that they made a vast matted plug in the opening. From Wordnik.com. [The Zero Stone]
He strolled round to the tennis lawn and was welcomed riotously by the players. From Wordnik.com. [The Thirty-Nine Steps] Reference
And they, forgetting their home and friends, henceforth live riotously with Comus. From Wordnik.com. [English Literature for Boys and Girls] Reference
Loony greeted Barney riotously, and Miranda sat on her master's shoulder and watched. From Wordnik.com. [The Rockingdown Mystery]
I pounded on the door until he looked out, his brown hair curling riotously from the humidity. From Wordnik.com. [The Shape of Dread]
"I have flung roses, roses riotously with the throng, to put those pale lost lilies out of mind.". From Wordnik.com. [Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets] Reference
Liquid TV's lines are jagged and edgy, its colors riotously garish, its settings constantly fluid. From Wordnik.com. [Beyond Beavis And Butt-Head] Reference
Season 12 begins with the riotously rude Cartman suffering a tonsillectomy that goes horribly wrong. From Wordnik.com. ["South Park" Season Premiere and More TiVoWorthy TV for March 12] Reference
In contrast, the riotously proliferating ecology of the resistant non-state has been highly successful. From Wordnik.com. [Michael Vlahos: America: Enemy of Change, Midwife of the Future] Reference
I worried about a quote comparing it to "A Confederacy of Dunces," which I thought was riotously unfunny. From Wordnik.com. [A Book in Need of a Good Editor] Reference
I have a similar crew of about 15 people following online, blogging riotously as the anticipation builds up. From Wordnik.com. [Yazmany Arboleda: Bringing Marina Flowers] Reference
Shot in black-and-white, Blanchett is eerily perfect in her mimicry, and riotously funny with her quick gibes. From Wordnik.com. [Toronto Rising] Reference
Today, Bulgakov's riotously funny Faustian tale of the Devil arriving in Moscow has lost none of its freshness. From Wordnik.com. [Books About the Cold War] Reference
This is not what anybody would call a novel perception, which wouldn't matter if the movie were riotously funny. From Wordnik.com. [Lover From Another Planet] Reference
His glistening black hair, bound about his forehead by a narrow fillet of skins, fell riotously over his shoulders. From Wordnik.com. [The Eternal Maiden] Reference
No matter how riotously absurd it is, or how full of inane repetition, remember, if it is good enough to tell, it is. From Wordnik.com. [Stories to Tell Children Fifty-Four Stories With Some Suggestions For Telling] Reference
"Beware the Cat" is a riotously wonderful Tudor suggestion of their superiority .... (though has its own symbolism). From Wordnik.com. [Tony Blair: The Next Labour Prime Minister?] Reference
Especially when 50 other guests are having a riotously good time and the music is grooving and the food is plentiful. From Wordnik.com. [outfoxed Diary Entry] Reference
Chicago; bought a little car, and moved out riotously with a pioneering hallucination that would have confounded Balboa. From Wordnik.com. [Tales of the Jazz Age] Reference
In her one-woman show, "Scared Skinny," she shares her story of weight loss and maturation with riotously funny delivery. From Wordnik.com. [Getting Political, Losing the Pounds] Reference
The artist, Ryan Trecartin, has been described as "possibly the most riotously talented artist of the YouTube generation.". From Wordnik.com. [Edward Goldman: Fasten Your Belt, It's Going to Be a Bumpy Ride] Reference
It was a lovely metaphor: Doakes standing silent and alone in a corner while all around him human life raged riotously on. From Wordnik.com. [DearlyDevotedDexter]
She was riotously pleased with herself, and bubbling over with pride in her cleverness, and joy in her escape from seclusion. From Wordnik.com. [Blue Aloes Stories of South Africa] Reference
To get another man's wife with child, so that another warrior laboured to feed your get, was a riotously good jest upon that fellow. From Wordnik.com. [Shaman's Crossing]
And employers who are just riotously, without conscience or concern for the national interest, exploiting these people by hiring them. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 21, 2005] Reference
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