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Synonyms for rioter


Grammar : Adj, noun
Spell : rahy-uht
Phonetic Transcription : ˈraɪ ət

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Définition of rioter

Origin :
  • late 14c., "debauchee," from Old French riotour, from riote, (see riot (n.)). Meaning "one who takes part in a rising or public disturbance against authority" is from mid-15c.
  • As in laughable : adj easily made fun of
  • As in laughing : adj laughable
  • As in droll : adj amusing, farcical
  • As in entertaining : adj amusing, pleasing
  • As in funny : adj comical, humorous
  • As in hilarious : adj very funny
  • As in incendiary : noun person who causes fire, trouble
  • As in insurgent : noun rebel
  • As in militant : noun person who fights, is aggressive
  • As in punk : noun hoodlum
  • As in radical : noun person who advocates significant, often extreme change
  • As in rebel : noun person who does not obey
  • As in ruffian : noun hoodlum
  • As in thug : noun hoodlum
  • As in insurrectionary : noun rebel
  • As in insurrectionist : noun rebel
  • As in revolutionist : noun rebel
  • As in demonstrator : noun protester
  • As in hood/hoodlum : noun gangster
  • As in hooligan : noun hoodlum
Example sentences :
  • And as for drunkenness, I was never drunk in my life; nor, by my own leave, a rioter.
  • Extract from : « Sir Ludar » by Talbot Baines Reed
  • And the other is a rioter, wasting his substance, and dishonoring his name in a strange country.
  • Extract from : « Merkland » by Mrs. Oliphant
  • Hassard, "fet not hassard nor rioter" (IP,320,c); so in original.
  • Extract from : « Early English Dramatists--Recently Recovered "Lost" Tudor Plays with some others » by Various
  • You see, the fist of the rioter has driven it home to me that I am a Jew.
  • Extract from : « The White Terror and The Red » by Abraham Cahan
  • The boy's white, set face, as he grasped the reins; and Rioter was off like lightning.
  • Extract from : « Under the Mendips » by Emma Marshall
  • "He's a bad fellow, that rioter," he said as they drove along.
  • Extract from : « Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. October, 1878. » by Various
  • In this sense each citizen has the high responsibility of a rioter.
  • Extract from : « What's Wrong With The World » by G.K. Chesterton
  • Polignac is a rioter; Camille Desmoulins is one of the governing powers.
  • Extract from : « Les Misrables » by Victor Hugo
  • I wanted to end as I had begun, die as my father had died, as a rioter in a riot, as a barricader behind a barricade.
  • Extract from : « Parisian Points of View » by Ludovic Halvy
  • Instead of that, he became a rowdy and a rioter, spending his days and his nights in evil company and in dissipation.
  • Extract from : « Stories Of Georgia » by Joel Chandler Harris

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