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Rowdyism

Rowdyism \Row"dy*ism\, n. the conduct of a rowdy.

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rowdyism

n. The state of being rowdy.

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rowdyism

n. rowdy behavior [syn: rowdiness, roughness, disorderliness]

Usage examples of "rowdyism".

She knew the library in Kenston had suffered from occasional bursts of rowdyism, and some of the staff had been subjected to aggressive and insulting behaviour by drunks and others who had come in only to cause trouble.

The days of total abstinence are a great improvement over those of unlicensed license, but there was a picturesque element about the rowdyism of our old Commencement days, which had a charm for the eye of boyhood.

The roads resound with atrocious profanity, and the rowdyism of the saloons and bar-rooms is repressed, not extirpated.

They bust the punks for drunkeness, rowdyism, hooligan ism and whatever else grease balls do.

He had left under a cloud and with a reputation for genuine toughness and rowdyism that has seen few parallels even in the ungentle district of his birth and upbringing.

I suppose there was more turbulence and what would be called rowdyism in my day than now.

Their act had not been rowdyism, but had been deliberately planned, so as to get their hands on these stones.

I believe that Victoria was saved from a great deal of the disorganization, rowdyism, and lynch-law of the early days in California by the imposition of a considerable licence-fee on diggers.

The crowd is orderly and good-humored, and the occasion is rarely marred by any act of rowdyism or lawlessness.

Harvard Beer, Yale Mixture, Princeton Pinochle, Chippee dances, hazing, roistering, rowdyism and the bulldog propensity.

Bradley, that the job of camp leader entailed joining the rowdyism of the native races.

The police tolerated no impudence, much less rowdyism, from the Negroes, and if a darky even looked mad, it was enough for some policeman to bend his club double over his head.

Sometimes the boys had caught us, Thurnus’s girls, or those of others, too, and roped us together and raped us in the furrows of the fields, but it had been done in the bullying rowdyism of their youth, having slave girls at their mercy.

Sometimes the boys had caught us, Thurnus's girls, or those of others, too, and roped us together and raped us in the furrows of the fields, but it had been done in the bullying rowdyism of their youth, having slave girls at their mercy.