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rampant

— adjective unrestrained and violent rampant aggression — adjective (of a plant) having a lush and unchecked growth a rampant growth of weeds — adjective (= rearing) rearing on left hind leg with forelegs elevated and head usually in profile a lion rampant

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wild rearing rank extravagant unrestrained uninhibited raging furious whopping wanton violent vaulting upright uninhabited undue undeterred uncontrolled uncontrollable unchecked unbridled steep spread savage runaway resistless rampageous profuse in overabundant orgiastic lion rampant guardant irrepressible inordinate impetuous immoderate hyperbolic fulsome frantic ferocious extend exorbitant excess exceeding crooked combatant abnormal

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Simple sentences

Starvation and disease were rampant among the lowest classes.

There are many latent gays among rampant homophobes.

Movie subtitles

But isn't superstition still rampant among us?

A porcupine rampant on a field of Fleur-de-lis.

With anti-Americanism rampant all over the globe. people are gonna love to hate this cowboy.

Rampant technology.

So the Kiraku will let the monsters continue to run rampant until then?!

Punk rampant!

Crescent moons, portcullises, beasts couchant and rampant, bars, bezants.

That's the sort of animal he is, upright, rampant, on his two hind feet.

Madness is rampant in the village.

Speculation, corruption, wasting of public funds were rampant.

Permissiveness runs rampant here on Golden Pond.

If we march, unprepared as we are, defeatism will run rampant.

Doctor'd have his hypodermic rampant before you could say As You Lik e It.

Just leaves more rampant totty for us real men.

We cannot afford to let this enemy run rampant.

Mutiny and piracy will be rampant in the fleet.

They say that before Christ. evil was rampant.

The Dragon rampant.

My department will crumble. crime will run rampant. the city will fall into ruin. hordes will control the streets, and life as we know it will end.

Alcohol and child abuse was rampant.

I'm here to dispel some of the gloom and doom running rampant in the press since the beginning of Charlie's Tet Offensive.

Well, strife was rampant because of the civil war.

That's where my talent runs rampant, and I charge accordingly.

A center of casual violence and capricious harassment. where rampant vice and amorality. permeate every strata of society. and the barrier between food and sex has totally dissolved.

Corruption is on the rise, homosexuality is rampant.

Unemployed with no hope of a job. Corruption is on the rise, homosexuality is rampant.

Society despises its own institutions. the binh rate keeps dropping. men refuse to serve in the army. the national debt is out of control. the work week is getting shoner. the bureaucracies are rampant.

You all know what we've had to face in the past. drugs, gang activity, rampant violence.

Oh, man, just rampant, mutant BO.

Trench mouth is rampant.

Or maybe they've fallen victim to some kind of rampant virus, or space anomaly or Dominion plot.

I can't tell you the heartbreak I suffered knowing that rampant inflation and currency devaluation were burning like wildfires through the lush financial foliage of my home.

Bullshit is rampant!

News and current affairs

Otherwise, bank runs and debt panics will be rampant.

The only foreseeable benefit to be gained through a devaluation is a reduction in uncertainty as an end will be put to the rampant speculation on when the RMB will be devalued.

Diseases are rampant, including an AIDs epidemic that killed around 2 million people in Africa last year, and malaria, which took more than 1 million lives.

Many emerging markets will also want to engage in countercyclical macroeconomic policy, but they are hemmed in by concerns of fiscal sustainability and fear of rampant inflation.

Nor was he able to contain let alone combat rampant corruption in the Palestinian Authority.

Corruption is rampant, with government officials accused of cronyism and drug trafficking.

Other criminologists argue that this finding, if well-founded, should then apply to any criminal law: every day, criminal prohibitions are infringed; yet if we did not have such prohibitions, crimes would be even more rampant.

For decades, due to rampant protectionism, the ratio of Brazil's exports to GNP was one of the lowest in the world.

Poverty runs rampant, orphanages overflow with abandoned children, countless packs of wild dogs roam the streets.

Qadri issued a 20-day ultimatum to the government in Islamabad to purge the political system of rampant corruption, reconstitute the Election Commission, and appoint a caretaker administration to oversee the upcoming vote.

Multinational executives frequently cite China as their favorite investment destination, but many of them also complain about rampant graft.

More than 2,000 Liberians have died of the disease, and the virus remains rampant.

Meanwhile, Egypt's sagging economy, high unemployment rate, and rampant corruption have driven many Egyptian youngsters to despair.

The prosecutions have allowed him to position himself as the protector of Turkish democracy against the coup plotters allegedly still running rampant among the military and secularists.

There was little of the rampant jingoism, get-them-at-all-costs bloodlust, constant speechifying, and flag-waving that followed the 2001 attacks.

Unless we break the ugly trends of big money in politics and rampant consumerism, we risk winning economic productivity at the price of our humanity.

When forced to choose between full employment and price stability, the international finance economists say that the Fed will choose price stability, because its institutional memory of the 1970's, when inflation ran rampant, remains very strong.

The Communist Party must keep the Chinese economy growing (even if more slowly), while fighting rampant corruption and responding to citizens' demands.

They heard from health experts who said that communicable diseases were rampant and that mosquito nets would be a great way to combat malaria.

But the country's rampant violence has created an environment of insecurity that complicates everyday life for many Mexicans.

The political institutions needed for an effective market economy are largely missing, and corruption is rampant.

The world should beware. Unless we break the ugly trends of big money in politics and rampant consumerism, we risk winning economic productivity at the price of our humanity.

Among non-democracies, China had the Bo Xilai scandal, which was worthy of a spy novel, with illicit affairs, rampant corruption, murder, and a senior police official's dramatic quest for asylum in a US consulate.

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