hell-raising

adjective

Definition of hell-raisingnext
as in rowdy
being rough or noisy in a high-spirited way would often reminisce with his buddies about their hell-raising adventures as teenagers

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for hell-raising
  1. rowdy
  2. boisterous
  3. raucous
  4. rambunctious
  5. rollicking
  6. rumbustious
  7. violent
  8. lively
Adjective
  • This isn’t the first rowdy revelation Bush Hager has shared on the morning show recently.
    Rachel McRady, People.com, 9 Dec. 2024
  • Tellingly, in the upper right-hand corner, Ruscha added a cheap Western cowboy magazine, its rowdy narrative of American manifest destiny having been torn in two.
    Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 9 Dec. 2024
Definition of rowdy
Adjective
  • Bottle pee–er Dwayne Johnson, who voices the boisterous South Pacific super-human Maui in Moana 2, logged two movies in the top five over the weekend; his Amazon MGM Christmas-on-creatine action flick, Red One, came in a distant fourth with $18.7 million in North American receipts.
    Chris Lee, Vulture, 2 Dec. 2024
  • Recognized for his distinctive wolf costume and boisterous social media antics, Babudar rose to fame as one of Kansas City’s most fervent fans.
    Denise Petski, Deadline, 27 Nov. 2024
Definition of boisterous
Adjective
  • While Queen seemed resistant to the crowd’s raucous support of the home team, Willard seemed to acknowledge that the first away game from Xfinity Center in College Park not involving a neutral venue impacted the players.
    Edward Lee, Baltimore Sun, 8 Dec. 2024
  • In the wake of the Kennedy assassination, many sporting events were called off, and the raucous, patriotic annual match between the two service academies nearly met the same fate.
    Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Dec. 2024
Definition of raucous
Adjective
  • Zoë is devoted to the family dog, Cece, a rambunctious mutt and a licker.
    Julia Whelan Krish Seenivasan Lance Neal, New York Times, 25 Nov. 2024
  • Yoon captures the comedy as a little girl focuses all of her attention on picking up pine cones while in the background chaos, her dad struggles to control a rambunctious, muddy dog.
    Lorraine Berry, Los Angeles Times, 25 Nov. 2024
Definition of rambunctious
Adjective
  • Joy’s jazzy, smoky version of the Marvin Gaye classic, coupled with her velvety vocals, sparked another rollicking ovation led by John who was the first to stand up.
    Gail Mitchell, Billboard, 4 Feb. 2023
  • His setlist, a rollicking walk-down-memory-lane of solo hits, NKOTB favorites, standards, show tunes and cover songs, showcased his range as an entertainer, musical virtuoso and keen collaborator.
    Sonal Dutt, Peoplemag, 23 Jan. 2023
Definition of rollicking
Adjective
  • The movie is both exquisite and rumbustious, stylized and energized.
    Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 5 May 2022
  • From 1657, when tea first became available in London’s coffeehouses, to the early seventeen-hundreds, when women were invited in, recreational tea drinking was the preserve of rumbustious gentlemen.
    David Kortava, The New Yorker, 17 Dec. 2021
Definition of rumbustious
Adjective
  • But witnesses to significant events, especially violent ones, are not given the option to stay silent.
    Bekah Waalkes, The Atlantic, 5 Dec. 2024
  • The director, Lumumba Sayers, is now in jail awaiting trial for first-degree murder. $2.7 million in taxpayer dollars went to sober living facilities led by a mixed martial arts fighter with a violent criminal record.
    John Frank, Axios, 5 Dec. 2024
Definition of violent
Adjective
  • Stroll corridors filled with lively conversation; hear and see in faithful detail what transpired almost three centuries ago.
    Weike Wang, The New Yorker, 9 Dec. 2024
  • Guests arrived to glasses of chilled champagne, fond embraces, and the buzz of lively conversation.
    Sasha Pinto, Vogue, 9 Dec. 2024
Definition of lively
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