0 loud and unpleasant: --
1 loud, excited, and not controlled, esp. in an unpleasant way: --
raucous laughter
It has been somewhat disturbing that some of us should have been criticised for being raucous militarists.
I can almost hear the raucous jeers behind him as he does so.
I hear strident and raucous voices in our society suggesting such things.
I am told that it was raucous, incoherent and, so far as could be ascertained, ill-informed.
Try to get lost somewhere in the raucous middle.
At one moment they are despondent; at the other moment they are raucous.
I have felt intimidated by bunches of raucous young people boarding the train, swilling their drink and throwing it across the floor.
A noise acceptable to someone walking along the street may be raucous and annoying to someone who is trying to sleep.
