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boisterous
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  • But it just so happens that the lieutenant overhears this exchange and, in a boisterous frame of mind, imagines that here is a perfect opportunity to teach some dandies a thing or two about games of chance.†  (source)
  • Lotte was enchanted by their one-year-old, Felix, who hopped around boisterously to the music.†  (source)
  • Peeves seemed to be bouncing along the corridor in boisterous good spirits, laughing his head off.†  (source)
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  • She thought of their disorderly games and their boisterous laughs, their secretive glances.†  (source)
  • Quentin and I did most of the talking, boisterously proclaiming how difficult the calculations were and describing how our rockets flew.†  (source)
  • She needed Wendy's boisterousness as balance to her own caution, Wendy's bluntness as antidote to her reserve.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
  • and Boris was just as interested, and curious, as I might have been if Judy from Karmeywallag or some other mythical person of his past had turned up — but we were drunk and too boisterous and I felt that we might be upsetting Mrs. DeFrecs, who though smiling politely was sitting rather still in a hall chair with her tiny beringed hands folded in her lap and not saying much.†  (source)
  • Emerging boisterously from the close confines of the den, the pups also became active — to the point of total exhaustion.†  (source)
  • But I did not....There was no panic, no frenzy, no boisterousness, but only the haste which the situation authorized.†  (source)
  • Wylis was quiet and formal, Wendel loud and boisterous; both had ostentatious walrus mustaches and heads as bare as a baby's bottom; neither seemed to own a single garment that was not spotted with food stains.†  (source)
  • Often men on the gill-netters yelled loudly and boisterously, "Watch where you're going, you fools.†  (source)
  • She sternly repressed a tendency to boisterousness when she reflected that Sidney Lanier must have been somewhat like her long-departed cousin, Joshua Singleton St. Clair, whose private literary preserves stretched from the Black Belt to Bayou La Batre.†  (source)
  • Dan Needham hated madeup words, and he became quite boisterous on the subject of what wintertime events Mr. Tubulari was competing in; the fanatic had gone to Alaska, or maybe Minnesota.†  (source)
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