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

Last week a dire project was under way to introduce into this quiet Eden a prodigious roisterer, a mighty brawler, a veritable Serpent-Man.

From Time Magazine Archive

And�perhaps surprisingly�he is better as the fat roisterer than he was as the melancholy Dane.

From Time Magazine Archive

Cavalier in English was early applied in a contemptuous sense to an overbearing swashbuckler—a roisterer or swaggering gallant.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 5 "Cat" to "Celt" by Various