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riotously

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ri·ot·ous  (rt-s)
adj.
1. Of, relating to, or resembling a riot.
2. Participating in or inciting to riot or uproar.
3. Uproarious; boisterous: a riotous party.
4. Dissolute; wanton: riotous living.
5. Abundant or luxuriant: a riotous growth. See Synonyms at profuse.
riot·ous·ly adv.
riot·ous·ness n.
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adv.1.riotouslyriotously - in a tumultuous and riotous manner; "the crowd was demonstrating tumultuously"
tumultuously
2.riotously - in an exuberant manner; "the exuberantly baroque decoration of the church"
exuberantly
Translations

riotously [ˈraɪətəslɪ] adv → bulliciosamente
riotously [ˈraɪətəslɪ] adv riotously funny → tordant(e)
riotously [ˈraɪətəslɪ] riot adv riotously funny or comic → urkomisch
riotously [ˈraɪətəslɪ] adv riotously funny → che fa crepare dal ridere
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The knowledge that I loved her rushed upon me with the terror, and with both emotions gripping at my heart and causing my blood at the same time to chill and to leap riotously, I felt myself drawn by a power without me and beyond me, and found my eyes returning against my will to gaze into the eyes of Wolf Larsen.
The Sea Wolf by London, Jack View in context
With what a ghastly rapture, as it were, too mighty to be expressed only by the eye and features, and therefore bursting forth through the whole ugliness of his figure, and making itself even riotously manifest by the extravagant gestures with which he threw up his arms towards the ceiling, and stamped his foot upon the floor
The Scarlet Letter by Hawthorne, Nathaniel View in context
At any time it is a strange sight to the tyro to see with what wondrous habitude of unconscious skill the whaleman will maintain an erect posture in his boat, even when pitched about by the most riotously perverse and cross-running seas.
Moby Dick I-LXVII by Melville, Herman View in context
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