riotous

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unrestrained and boisterous; degenerate or dissolute
causing, inciting or taking part in a riot
having the characteristics of a riot
{a} seditous, noisy, licentious, luxurious
{s} characterized by or engaging in public disturbance; wild, uncontrollable; noisy, boisterous; extremely funny, hilarious; wanton, licentious
Involving, or engaging in, riot; wanton; unrestrained; luxurious
If you say that someone has a riotous lifestyle, you mean that they frequently behave in a excessive and uncontrolled way, for example by eating or drinking too much. aristocrats who wasted their inheritances in riotous living. = wild
Partaking of the nature of an unlawful assembly or its acts; seditious
produced or growing in extreme abundance; "their riotous blooming"
characterized by unrest or disorder or insubordination; "effects of the struggle will be violent and disruptive"; "riotous times"; "these troubled areas"; "the tumultuous years of his administration"; "a turbulent and unruly childhood"
You can describe someone's behaviour or an event as riotous when it is noisy and lively in a rather wild way. The dinner was often a riotous affair enlivened by superbly witty speeches. + riotously ri·ot·ous·ly a slapstick affair which I found riotously amusing
unrestrained by convention or morality; "Congreve draws a debauched aristocratic society"; "deplorably dissipated and degraded"; "riotous living"; "fast women"
riotous fancy
wild imagination, outlandish imagination
riotousness
The state or condition of being riotous
riotously
{a} seditiously, noisily, luxuriously
riotousness
{n} a state of or disposition to riot
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In a riotous manner
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In a manner that causes uncontrollable laughter
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in a tumultuous and riotous manner; "the crowd was demonstrating tumultuously"
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in an exuberant manner; "the exuberantly baroque decoration of the church"
riotously
wildly, uncontrollably; noisily, boisterously; in an extremely funny manner, hilariously; wantonly, licentiously
riotousness
{i} wildness, state of being uncontrollable; noisiness, boisterousness; funniness, hilariousness; wantonness, licentiousness
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