(a.) Involving, or engaging in, riot; wanton; unrestrained; luxurious.
(a.) Partaking of the nature of an unlawful assembly or its acts; seditious.
Example Sentences:
(1) Afternoon Delights doesn't have anything approaching a mission statement – it's just two middle-aged men arsing about, frankly – but its gleeful anarchism can be riotously funny: witness the pair as free runners, declaring "war against the urban environment", or their magnificently coiffed Rock'n'Rollers, with the aid of subtitles, showing off their moves on the streets of Ashford, Kent.
(2) Shakespeare's Globe, 30–31 May I, Cinna Tim Crouch's one-man reimaginings of the plays, intended for young audiences, are riotous.
(3) Judging from your recent tweets, you had quite a riotous time at the Radio Times party last night?
(4) This led directly to Briers working with Branagh on many subsequent projects: as a perhaps too likeable Malvolio ("My best part, and I know it," he said) in an otherwise wintry Twelfth Night at the Riverside Studios, Hammersmith, in 1987, and on a world tour with the Renaissance company as a ropey King Lear (the set really was a mass of ropes, the production dubbed "String Lear") and a sagacious, though not riotously funny, Bottom in A Midsummer Night's Dream.
(5) The first is a normal one; the others are disorderly and riotous, up to the point of foreing the discontinuance of academic activities for several months.
(6) The film is fast-paced and riotous and represents a dire warning about eating Mexican food before attending a wedding dress fitting.
(7) Hip Hop Karaoke every Thursday at The Social, London and at Shipping Forecast, Liverpool, 20 February; Limelight, Belfast, 8 March, hiphopkaraoke.co.uk Rebel Bingo Facebook Twitter Pinterest Once called The Underground Rebel Bingo Club, the riotous night of number yelling and covering yourself in daubers has had to drop the “underground” part of its name, presumably because it’s gone stratospheric.
(8) MySpace was riotous, vulgar and slightly weird – partly because it allowed users to decorate their pages by adding customised HTML code.
(9) Of the 229 people detained as part of Operation Dulcet – the huge drive to bring lawbreakers to justice – 174 have been charged with offences including riotous assembly, affray, unlawful assembly, assault on police and criminal damage.
(10) She is also the muse and favourite collaborator of composers from Gerald Barry to Pierre Boulez , from Henri Dutilleux to Michel van der Aa , and was magnetic as a hysterically imperious crockery-chucking Cecily Cardew in Barry's riotous The Importance of Being Earnest , and as the coloratura coquette she created for his The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant at English National Opera.
(11) The judge ruled that losses claimed did "arise out of the injury to and destruction of the warehouse and injury to, theft of or destruction of property within the warehouse, by persons riotously and tumultuously assembled" within the meaning of the 1886 act.
(12) Comparisons are cruel but Scolari's Chelsea have as yet offered only glimpses of their riotous best at a ground where they had previously proved imperious.
(13) However, hidden Soho gem Boi Box is my top tip, with its small family of drag kings putting on riotous monthly performances at She Bar.
(14) I used to go on holiday with my friend Jessica and her family and, in among riotous games of whist and races on the beach, I remember her, after a tearful row over a packet of biscuits that had been unfairly distributed, slamming the bedroom door and hurling herself on to the bottom bunk.
(15) The time had come for his brand of racy and riotous comedy.
(16) The film had brought him nothing but trouble in its time, but now here it was in its uncut glory and the audience were on their feet giving Russell a riotous standing ovation.
(17) I believe in God, everything I see is part of God, but not in that way.” Still, even during the riotous hedonism of the Studio 54 era, Mas P’s fear of God remained hammered into her.
(18) The famous Scottish Divided Self, our Jekyll and Hyde complex, often simply involves a swing between riotously emphatic tartan cliches and real self-doubt.
(19) Suggestive "slo-mo" shots of young women enjoying the eroticised rituals of one of America's student rites of passage – the riotous spring vacation – may suggest Korine is straying dangerously close to a teen exploitation movie.
(20) The relaxation of censorship encouraged the riotous reproduction of visual satire, from political cartoons to mockery of manners and morals.