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

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

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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

"You cannot deny, Hawke, that you dined at the marble house with the beauty whom we are all toasting," said a rallying roisterer.

From A Fascinating Traitor An Anglo-Indian Story by Savage, Richard