riotous
rio·tous
adjective
1.
2.
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”
3.
unrestrained by convention or morality
- “Congreve draws a debauched aristocratic society”
- “deplorably dissipated and degraded”
- “riotous living”
- “fast women”
Origin
Inherited from Middle English riotous, from Anglo-Norman riotous; equivalent to riot + -ous.
Phrases
- riotous living
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