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excessively noisy and unrestrained- It is a boisterous crowd, but there is more than enough security.
boisterous = excessively noisy and unrestrained
- The one thing I did, though, I was careful ... not to get boisterous or anything.J.D. Salinger -- The Catcher in the Rye
- School was recently over for the summer, and the feeling of liberty sat uneasily on most of them; they tended to gather together quietly for a while before they broke into boisterous play, and their talk was still of the classroom and the teacher, of books and reprimands.Shirley Jackson -- The Lottery
- Bronty's "foal" was now a boisterous yearling who in public was treated by Pilgrim with a kind of lofty disdain.Nicholas Evans -- The Horse Whisperer
- Peeves seemed to be bouncing along the corridor in boisterous good spirits, laughing his head off.J.K. Rowling -- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
- We crossed the square where Leon heroically nursed his wife, and then raised his boisterous children with a devotion that amazed us all.Ian McEwan -- Atonement
- He was kind to her also in his bluff, boisterous fashion, and on the whole they seemed to be a happy couple.Arthur Conan Doyle -- The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
- And the townspeople paraded the brilliantly lighted streets in boisterous groups, laughing and singing.Albert Camus -- The Plague
- He was loud and boisterous, always laughing and singing, and never able to work consecutively at anything.W. E. B. Du Bois -- The Souls of Black Folk
- The boisterous wind is hushed.Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The House of the Seven Gables
- Quentin and I did most of the talking, boisterously proclaiming how difficult the calculations were and describing how our rockets flew.Homer Hickam -- October Sky
- George was boisterous where I was sedate, outgoing where I was shy, chunky and square-cut where I was long and angular.Russell Baker -- Growing Up
- "And men descend into holes," interrupted Cap, laughing in his boisterous way, while Pathfinder chimed in, in his peculiar manner.James Fenimore Cooper -- The Pathfinder
- Pete had resembled Mike: big, at six foot four; boisterous, handsome with a white-toothed smile; full of life.James Bradley -- Flags of Our Fathers
- 'tis lucky thou hast seen the sight; The boisterous guests approach that were invited.Goethe (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) -- Faust
- Other than the boisterous revolutionaries who had invaded our lives in Corpus Christi, most of the Iranians I knew were cultured and polite.Betty Mahmoody -- Not Without My Daughter
- The three brothers followed him, boisterous from the open air and their recent doings, so that now the clan was complete.T. H. White -- The Once and Future King
- Even under the glow of his wine he was never boisterous, though he found the stuff like a magician's wand for wonder-building.Willa Cather -- Paul's Case
- Nothing like the boisterous, giggling behavior I expect from them.Alice Walker -- The Color Purple
- He ordered a bottle and a glass, but the boisterous mule skinners made so much racket he couldn't enjoy his drinking.Larry McMurtry -- Lonesome Dove
boisterous = excessively noisy and unrestrained
boisterous = noisy and unrestrained