roisterer

Example Sentences

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He is every flabby inch the ramshackle roisterer, who announces the keynote of his unbuttoned, spilling-over performance in his spluttering rejection of the notion that he "confine" himself.

From The Guardian • Jan. 23, 2011

Within a month Darnley had shown himself to be a selfish, inconstant, drunken roisterer, vicious and contemptible.

From Time Magazine Archive

His reputation as an actor grew almost as fast as his reputation as a loudmouthed roisterer.

From Time Magazine Archive

Many suffered from "his scheming tricks ... his dirty dealing and underhand passing of coin, all the shabby pretense in the double-faced glutton and roisterer."

From Time Magazine Archive

Something in Rachel's face and in her manner of speaking seemed to make an impression upon the young roisterer.

From Tom Tufton's Travels by Everett-Green, Evelyn