ruffler
Example Sentences
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"Uncle Charlie," as his Columbia students called him, was also a great ruffler of conventional thought.
From Time Magazine Archive
Not a ruffler or a wench was in the streets after dark, nor any one save staid citizens upon their business, or the halberdiers of the watch.
From Micah Clarke His Statement as made to his three grandchildren Joseph, Gervas and Reuben During the Hard Winter of 1734 by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
In New Custome a morality, 1573, Creweltie, one of the characters, is termed a ruffler.
From Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters by John Earle
He.—I would do like all other beggars set on horseback: I would be the most insolent ruffler that has ever been seen.
From Diderot and the Encyclopædists Volume II. by John Morley
No doubt since the accomplishment was mine it became in her eyes characteristic of a bully and a ruffler.
From The Suitors of Yvonne: being a portion of the memoirs of the Sieur Gaston de Luynes by Rafael Sabatini
