Definition of Rorty

1. Adjective. Boisterous, rowdy, saucy, dissipated, or risqué. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Rorty

1. rowdy [adj RORTIER, RORTIEST] - See also: rowdy

Lexicographical Neighbors of Rorty

roriest
roriferous
rorifluent
rorisite
rorqual
rorquals
rorschach test
rort
rorted
rorter
rorters
rortier
rortiest
rorting
rorts
rorty (current term)
rorulent
rory
ros
rosace
rosacea
rosacea-like tuberculid
rosaceas
rosaceous
rosaces
rosacic
rosacic acid
rosaker
rosakers

Literary usage of Rorty

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Studies in English, Written and Spoken: For the Use of Continental Students by Cornelis Stoffel (1894)
"22, 1885, 86'': "It's nice, if it's naughty! I'm regular rorty"; Punch, April 17, 1886 ['Arry on Radicalism]: "They 'ate us, these rorty Red Flaggers, ..."

2. Conceptions of Social Inquiry by J. J. Snyman (1993)
"If you were a member of the San people and asked rorty in view of his ... One need not be a San to solicit this kind of response from rorty — if you were ..."

3. Liberty And Justice by Tibor R. Machan (2006)
"Richard rorty, "The Seer of Prague," in The New Republic (July 1, 1991), 35-40. The foundation of rorty's metaphysics is the claim that ..."

4. The Business of Commerce: Examining an Honorable Profession by James Chesher, Tibor R. Machan (1999)
"Charles M. Bakewell, Source Book in Ancient Philosophy (New York: Gordian Press, 1873); Richard rorty, Objectivity, Relativism, and Truth (Cambridge, ..."

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