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[ UK /ɹˈɔːkəs/ ]
[ US /ˈɹɔkəs/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. disturbing the public peace; loud and rough
    rowdy teenagers
    a raucous party
  2. unpleasantly loud and harsh

How To Use raucous In A Sentence

  • For local entertainment you would have to hire the raucously energetic rock group that rehearses in the village hall.
  • We presume that there was nothing whatever to have prevented him from concocting as many ballads as he chose; or from engaging, as engines of popular promulgation, the ancestors of those unshaven and raucous gentlemen, to whose canorous mercies we are wont, in times of political excitement, to intrust our own personal and patriotic ditties. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847
  • The most raucous celebrations of an overdue renaissance are scheduled for the south of France next month. Times, Sunday Times
  • The absolute clarity of the orchestral texture allowed for the sometimes jarring harmonies and raucous percussion effects to be highlighted.
  • Like most pop music, this song transitions from a relatively calm verse to a more raucous chorus.
  • This was rugby's musclebound equivalent of the raucous stag party. Times, Sunday Times
  • But the younger sister was an actress even then; loud, raucous and playing to the crowd.
  • Someone in the hushed bar suddenly laughed raucously at how stupid everyone had become.
  • There's betrayal, murder, raucous feasts, flamenco dancing and the occasional talking tree.
  • They ended their set by standing on their amps and jumped off them while playing one loud raucous power chord.
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