English

Adjective

roilsome ‎(comparative more roilsome, superlative most roilsome)

1. Marked by roiling or agitation; turbid
   • 2000, Eileen F. Lebow, The Bright Boys:

     Something of a maverick in New York's roilsome politics, Harris had sought the position, one that did not rank highly in political circles.

   • 2001, William Guy, Gravity's Revolt:

     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.

   • 2002, Peter Kaminsky, The Fly Fisherman's Guide to the Meaning of Life:

     Before I venture into these roilsome waters, let me be very clear: I prefer that people not kill trout.. . ever.

   • 2002, Billy Bob Hill, Texas in Poetry 2:

     This Gulf the radio reports so roilsome.

   • 2006, Pamela Kaufman, The Prince of Poison:

     The knights returned after nightfall, their voices stilled. Yet one told us that never had the water been so deep, never so roilsome.

   • 2007, Cat Rambo, ‎Jeff VanderMeer, The Surgeon's Tale:

     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.

   • 2013, Mr. Garrison Gibson, Fossil Fueled Federal Deficits:

     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.

   • 2016, Garrison Clifford Gibson, God, Cosmology and Nothingness:

     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.