roistering's Usage Examples:

applied to those who supported Charles, it was meant to portray them as roistering gallants.

endangered by the stiff competition with "Blacha", as people of Warsaw called roistering youths grouped around Copper-Roof Palace (quarters of prince Józef Poniatowski).

Southerne's Sir Anthony Love, where Lucia partakes of the freedom of the roistering Restoration rake by disguising herself as "Sir Anthony".

By then he had acquired a reputation, which he had encouraged, as a "roistering, drunken and doomed poet".

Of lesser standing, but closer to the old days of pot-hoisting and roistering, was the Green Bush Inn, probably started in the pioneering era by the.

a roistering hubbub.

He was, altogether, as roistering and swaggering a young gentleman as ever stood four feet six, or something.

of parts from the drooping young lover Faulkland in The Rivals to the roistering Sir Toby Belch in Twelfth Night.

Stephen Gray, "Richard Rive biography: Where's the roistering braggart?" (review of Richard Rive: A Partial Biography, by Shaun Viljoen;.

At other times, the movie plays like nothing so much as a roistering comedy western.

As to the British, how they will react when we show three roistering, drunken Tommies on the screen is a question.

roles subvert conventional gender roles by allowing women to imitate the roistering and sexually aggressive behaviour of male Restoration rakes, but Elizabeth.

men and women in the audience greatly relished Mountfort's swaggering, roistering impersonations of young women wearing breeches and thereby enjoying the.

eyewitnesses say pork tins and bottles of vodka found on the spot prove roistering Russian soldiers stayed there.

also known as the “bad boy of the air,” because of his hard-drinking roistering lifestyle and numerous flying infractions.

Synonyms:

racket; make merry; whoop it up; wassail; make whoopie; riot; carouse; make happy; revel; jollify;

Antonyms:

dishonor; order;