Meaning

In a riotous manner..

Definitions by Sense

1. In a riotous manner.
2. In a degenerate or dissolute manner.
3. In a manner that causes or involves uncontrollable laughter.

Example Sentences

The overpowering sense of somebody beyond reach who lived in a world riotously happening only in his own mind.

But inside the aquarium, riotously colored saltwater fish, schools of silvery piranhas, and even one seemingly communicative manta ray allow visitors to dream of worlds beyond a war that has made the land where the oceanic sanctuary sits a battle zone.

Greatly mystified, the curate turned to examine another picture, the cryptic title of which was, "The superintendent and the soubrette - our reporter puts a pornographic parson's pot on." In this the superintendent, distinguished by a clerical coat and a Methodistical brand of whisker, was delineated in the act of riotously drinking from a bottle labelled "champagne," having evidently accommodated the soubrette - a lady in extremely abbreviated skirts - with his only glass.

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• more riotously
• most riotously

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Use riotously when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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