"roilsome" meaning in All languages combined

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Adjective [English]

Forms: more roilsome [comparative], most roilsome [superlative]
Etymology: From roil + -some. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|roil|some}} roil + -some Head templates: {{en-adj}} roilsome (comparative more roilsome, superlative most roilsome)
  1. Marked by roiling or agitation; turbid
    Sense id: en-roilsome-en-adj-aJj9v-VJ Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -some

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          "text": "Something of a maverick in New York's roilsome politics, Harris had sought the position, one that did not rank highly in political circles.",
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          "ref": "2001, William Guy, Gravity's Revolt",
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          "text": "This Gulf the radio reports so roilsome.",
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          "text": "The knights returned after nightfall, their voices stilled. Yet one told us that never had the water been so deep, never so roilsome.",
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          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "2016, Garrison Clifford Gibson, God, Cosmology and Nothingness",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "2001, William Guy, Gravity's Revolt",
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          "text": "This Gulf the radio reports so roilsome.",
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