tosspot

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Sad-eyed, lanky Artist Utrillo got a tosspot reputation in his youth, produced, nevertheless, many serious and hauntingly gifted paintings, and for at least ten years has been sober as a church.

From Time Magazine Archive

Critic Swaffer, tall, stringy, in his 50's, convivial, well-to-do, was once a famed young tosspot.

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Best performance by an actor: Frank Fay, as the gentle, rabbit-fancying tosspot in Harvey.

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In Manhattan the Rev. Charles S. Webster saw fit to say that the Scottish poet was not the irreligious tosspot he had been made out.

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But a certain ne'er-do-well Mountain, a noted striker and tosspot of the district, had mysteriously disappeared about that date, and had never since come within scope of Castle Barfield knowledge.

From Julia And Her Romeo: A Chronicle Of Castle Barfield From "Schwartz" by David Christie Murray by Murray, David Christie