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riotous

 adjective
     
Related topics: Crime
ri‧ot‧ous [usually before noun] formal
1 noisy, exciting, and enjoyable in an uncontrolled way [= wild]:
a riotous party
2SCC noisy or violent, especially in a public place:
Their riotous behaviour led to their arrest.
—riotously adverb
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