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

Parsons, a solid newsman and no roisterer, tried to put a new polish on the old formula by adding such features as David Low's cartoons and increasing the coverage of international news.

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

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

Cotton was a roisterer, a man at one time deep in debt, but he was a Royalist, a scholar, and an angler. 

From Introduction to the Compleat Angler by Lang, Andrew