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词汇 raucous
释义 raucous
adjective
uk /ˈrɔː.kəs/ us /ˈrɑː.kəs/
loud and unpleasant: (声音)刺耳的,尖厉的
I heard the raucous call of the crows.我听到那些乌鸦刺耳的叫声。
Raucous laughter came from the next room.隔壁房间传来刺耳的笑声。
The party was becoming rather raucous.聚会变得越来越吵闹。
Synonym
rowdydisapproving
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Describing qualities of sound
audibly
boomy
chocolatey
chuff
clomp
crackling
ear-splitting
mellifluously
melodically
melodiously
metallically
murmurous
silvery
squeaky
staccato
textured
thready
tinnily
tunefully
tunefulness

Related words


raucously
raucousness

raucous | American Dictionary


raucous
adjective
us/ˈrɔ·kəs/
loud, excited, and not controlled, esp. in an unpleasant way:
raucous laughter

Examples of raucous


raucous
The emergence of a lively, raucous and fractious democracy did not transform official explanations for popular politics.
But it obscures both behind a raucous and imaginative musical surface.
His was a figure of tremendous, repressed pain; his outward form muffled a raucous, screaming silence.
The producers wanted to recreate the sound of a live concert, so they had invited friends to the studio to provide the raucous background.
The accompaniment of winds, percussion and tape is loud and raucous with the electronic sounds only entering at particularly climactic points in the text.
This music was originally dismissed by high-minded individuals as raucous, uncouth and in being popular, potentially likely to provoke 'miscegenation' between the races.
In reading these papers one is struck by the realization of a previous relative silence from religious leaders in an often raucous public debate on universal healthcare.
A noise acceptable to someone walking along the street may be raucous and annoying to someone who is trying to sleep.
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I have felt intimidated by bunches of raucous young people boarding the train, swilling their drink and throwing it across the floor.
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At one moment they are despondent; at the other moment they are raucous.
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Try to get lost somewhere in the raucous middle.
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I am told that it was raucous, incoherent and, so far as could be ascertained, ill-informed.
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I hear strident and raucous voices in our society suggesting such things.
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I can almost hear the raucous jeers behind him as he does so.
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It has been somewhat disturbing that some of us should have been criticised for being raucous militarists.
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