roisterer

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

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

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

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

It seemed impossible that he could be the same raw rustic youth who, a few short months ago, was accounted the greatest roisterer of his own county.

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