What's the difference between boisterous and rampageous?

Boisterous


Definition:

  • (a.) Rough or rude; unbending; unyielding; strong; powerful.
  • (a.) Exhibiting tumultuous violence and fury; acting with noisy turbulence; violent; rough; stormy.
  • (a.) Noisy; rough; turbulent; as, boisterous mirth; boisterous behavior.
  • (a.) Vehement; excessive.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A man of Ben van Beurden’s power and reputation for blunt speaking is capable of silencing a ballroom packed with his boisterous peers.
  • (2) In a boisterous session of prime minister's questions, Cameron raised questions over Flowers's suitability to run the bank.
  • (3) Her childhood - split between a boisterous outdoorsiness and an intense inner life - was dominated by her overbearing mother, with whom she fought "steadily but reluctantly" until her death.
  • (4) In a rare move, Cannes judges decided to split the jury prize between Mommy , a boisterous Oedipal comedy from Canada's 25-year-old Xavier Dolan, and the abstract, oblique Goodbye to Language from the 83-year-old provocateur Jean-Luc Godard.
  • (5) Less recognizable than its more boisterous counterpart and in some respects less tangible, this side of the problem of countertransference is no less important.
  • (6) Brodick's Ormidale Hotel is a boisterous, Camra-recommended pub with homecooked bar food and a large garden.
  • (7) When she talks about the difference the treatments made in her life, her voice – already cheerful – becomes boisterous.
  • (8) There are 2.46 million eligible voters who will elect 89 members of parliament after a boisterous nine-day campaign.
  • (9) A neighbour, the mother of three boisterous boys, left her family to fend for themselves at 8am and did not return until late in the evening.
  • (10) When he opened the newspapers on Thursday he found that his robust handling of a boisterous budget day had made him a parliamentary superstar in pinstripes.
  • (11) Was it the boisterous intrusion of her tone, the inexcusability of the phrase "lonely only", or the idea of strapping on skates as a euphemism for – what exactly?
  • (12) She described the elder Trump as “very, very difficult … loud and boisterous” and someone Trump was eager to impress.
  • (13) In a format that was three parts talkshow to one part gameshow, the candidates faced probing inquiries as well as random questions pulled from sealed envelopes as they sat almost knee-to-knee with MSNBC host Rachel Maddow in front of a boisterous campus audience.
  • (14) The crowds are boisterous, desperate even, and the umpire tells them to shut it.
  • (15) Several attitudes toward this widespread adolescent behaviour are now current--and often in conflict--in our society, including viewing teenage intoxication as a symptom of problem drinking, a warning signal of future alcoholism, a reflection of cultural norms and social changes, and an expression of youthful boisterousness.
  • (16) Tonight we have made a little bit of history,” the white-haired Sanders said at a podium positioned between Wisconsin and United States flags at the outset of his hourlong speech before a boisterous crowd.
  • (17) By the end, the boisterous corner of Evertonians were crowing that his job was in danger.
  • (18) The giant banner unveiled before kickoff on the fondo sur , where Madrid’s most boisterous fans congregate, read: “ Juntos No Hay Imposibles ” (translation: “Together Nothing is Impossible”).
  • (19) On one side it said “Tired doctors make mistakes” and on the other “New contract – DNR.” The mood at the rally, just off Pall Mall, was defiant, boisterous and determined, though interspersed with noisy chants of “Hunt must go, Hunt must go” and “BMA, BMA, BMA”, in support of the organisation Hunt is trying to separate them from.
  • (20) There is a sports room, a little boisterous like a dressing room up and down the country.

Rampageous


Definition:

  • (a.) Characterized by violence and passion; unruly; rampant.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) FBI assistant director David Bowdich said that Syed Farook, 28, and his wife Tashfeen Malik, 27, were radicalized long before they went on a rampage at a community center in southern California last Wednesday, but would not specify whether he meant months or years.
  • (2) At least half of the perpetrators in 100 rampages studied by the New York Times were found to have signs of serious mental health issues, and it was reported last week that Adam Lanza's mother was in the process of having him committed when he embarked on the Newtown rampage.
  • (3) Armed with an assault rifle, he then allegedly headed into two poor villages in Kandahar province, the Taliban's heartland, and went on a murderous rampage in which six people were also injured.
  • (4) The archbishop of Irbil's Chaldean Catholics told the Observer fewer than 40 Christians remained in north-western Iraq after a jihadist rampage that has forced thousands to flee from Mosul and the Nineveh plains into Irbil in the Kurdish north.
  • (5) The three-day rampage by 10 gunmen in 2008 killed 166 people.
  • (6) Quite rightly, the appearance of the rampaging hordes of women whom David Cameron has promoted has been criticised.
  • (7) One response to the Isla Vista rampage is a California law, AB 1014, that allows family members and law enforcement to petition a court to remove guns from the possession of someone who may be a risk to others.
  • (8) The Bournemouth defender Adam Smith rampaged down the right flank, crossing for the on-running Ritchie, who sent a flying header towards goal, only for his effort to be tipped over by Elliot.
  • (9) "The media like to paint a picture of hooligans and thugs, mindless men on the rampage.
  • (10) "This is not about letting people go on the rampage.
  • (11) The result is a rampaging drug-fuelled and illicit economy on the wings that engenders criminality rather than deters it.
  • (12) Gangs in bandanas rampaged through the dollar stores, barbers, and takeaways of West Florissant Avenue.
  • (13) In July 2013, rampaging asylum seekers torched the centre, causing $60m worth of damage.
  • (14) The mob violence was followed the next day by retaliatory attacks by gangs of Middle Eastern youths who went on the rampage in the beachside suburb, smashing cars and beating up innocent passers-by.
  • (15) Resorting to a series of Ted the swordsman scenes which may merely be the lurid fantasies of the heroine, director Christine Jeffs never makes it clear whether Hughes was a rampaging philanderer whose sexual conquests and general obliviousness to Plath's mounting depression led to her demise, or a man driven into other women's arms by his wife's chronic melancholy - perhaps the most time-honoured excuse of the inveterate tomcat - or both.
  • (16) The wrecked "candy ravers" and rampaging fratboys of EDM cliche are barely present – aside from more visible breasts and muscles, it is close to any European festival audience out for a good time, perhaps even a bit savvier.
  • (17) Mohamed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel, a 31-year-old delivery driver and father, was shot dead by police after killing 84 people, including 10 children and teenagers, and injuring scores more in a deadly Bastille Day rampage.
  • (18) But, in a gallery a few steps away, the courage and creativity of students whose biggest moment was wrecked by the fire that rampaged through Charles Rennie Mackintosh's great building last month makes for what must be the most moving of this summer's graduate exhibitions.
  • (19) The new TV advert featuring Barton is part of the Demand a Plan campaign that brings Mayors Against Illegal Guns together with the survivors of rampages and victims families to call for a concrete legislative plan to reduce the annual carnage.
  • (20) Yet it still felt vaguely surprising when Yaya Touré shrugged himself from his own fitful display – occasionally at his brutish best, just as often rather sluggish, and nothing like the player who rampaged in this arena as City all but claimed the title last April – to fizz in a riposte 12 minutes from time, but there was to be no relief at the end.

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