NOUN
- the property of being noisy and lively and unrestrained
- a turbulent and stormy state of the sea
How To Use boisterousness In A Sentence
- They approached the town with a type of weary boisterousness and slowed to a halt when reaching the gates.
- He looks like a Weeble and his unstoppable boisterousness keeps him always on the verge of falling down. A Rock Fist Way “Up” » Scene-Stealers
- If disturbing the peace (a public demonstration of boisterousness or "tumultuousness") is justification for making an arrest at any time, then the officer must be afforded the discretion of deciding in gray situations when the peace has been disturbed enough to warrant an arrest. On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
- This year there was boisterousness earlier in the evening as guests at the table where Watson was sitting were heckled for chatting loudly during a performance by violinist Nicola Benedetti.
- He has an agreeable kind of boisterousness, also, that should be fun to dance to. NewMusicBox
- He often got chastised by other parents for things like pushing another child off the sandbox ledge in a moment of exuberance, although he did it not from anger but out of boisterousness. Red Flags or Red Herrings?
- Then Mr. Mill's life as disclosed to us in these pages has been called joyless, by that sect of religious partisans whose peculiarity is to mistake boisterousness for unction. Critical Miscellanies, Vol. 3 (of 3) Essay 2: The Death of Mr Mill - Essay 3: Mr Mill's Autobiography
- Clearly their boisterousness was meant to impress the girl. Still Life
- I tire of the labour of thinking, and, when the table is finished, start practical jokes and set all playing at games, which we carry on with bucolic boisterousness. Chapter 37
- In Beethoven's Variations on an Original Theme, Op. 44, the trio contrasted the music's delicacy with sheer boisterousness. Emerson opens string quartet festival with well-played Schonberg