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roilsome en · ADJ

Etymology

From roil + -some.

Meanings

1. Marked by roiling or agitation; turbid
   • Of course the actual consequences of a mass diet at the end of Universe (1) would be remarkable and better subject for serious calculations instead of dead reckoning through dark and roilsome mysts of topical speculation. 2013, Mr. Garrison Gibson, Fossil Fueled Federal Deficits:
   • Before I venture into these roilsome waters, let me be very clear: I prefer that people not kill trout.. . ever. 2002, Peter Kaminsky, The Fly Fisherman's Guide to the Meaning of Life:
   • Something of a maverick in New York's roilsome politics, Harris had sought the position, one that did not rank highly in political circles. 2000, Eileen F. Lebow, The Bright Boys:
   • This Gulf the radio reports so roilsome. 2002, Billy Bob Hill, Texas in Poetry 2:
   • The knights returned after nightfall, their voices stilled. Yet one told us that never had the water been so deep, never so roilsome. 2006, Pamela Kaufman, The Prince of Poison:
   • Subsequent encounters with other patrons suggest that the combination of ambiance and food in the Cafe had a profound effect. "There shall gelatinous be our fate under the roilsome seas, and we shall take to it blissfully," one individual said. 2007, Cat Rambo, Jeff VanderMeer, The Surgeon's Tale:
   • The atmosphere was roilsome and occluded. As the crust cooled and the solar system sorted itself out into major and minor planets and moon with plenty of debris chemical recombination occurred. 2016, Garrison Clifford Gibson, God, Cosmology and Nothingness:
   • I mention all this about Teddy so as to suggest what I sensed to be the really roilsome nature of the struggle he was caught in at this moment, this day when I had walked with him to my office. 2001, William Guy, Gravity's Revolt:

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