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
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
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
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 Andrew Lang
