What does riotous mean?
Riotous means Having the characteristics of a riot..
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/ˈɹaɪətəs/ · adjective
Having the characteristics of a riot..
The prison administrators are always planting seeds of hate, division, separatism, and prison peer group racism in the various ethnic groups here, causing friction and riotous situations where one group is set against another.
Open carriages tend to be draughty and inadequately heated. The passenger in them has no escape from the annoyance of squalling babies, boisterous drunks, and riotous teddy-boys, who may be at the far end of the coach but whose din cannot be shut out.
Use riotous when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Riotous means Having the characteristics of a riot..
Common synonyms include ragmatical, profligate, exuberant, lush.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
The prison administrators are always planting seeds of hate, division, separatism, and prison peer group racism in the various ethnic groups here, causing friction and riotous situations where one group is set against another.
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