ruffler

Example Sentences

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"Uncle Charlie," as his Columbia students called him, was also a great ruffler of conventional thought.

From Time Magazine Archive

As for Falconnet, he was even then a ruffler and a bully, though he was not of the army.

From The Master of Appleby A Novel Tale Concerning Itself in Part with the Great Struggle in the Two Carolinas; but Chiefly with the Adventures Therein of Two Gentlemen Who Loved One and the Same Lady by Lynde, Francis

I marvel," said Raoul, as if he heard her not, "that yonder ruffler comes hither.

From The Betrothed by Scott, Walter, Sir

"It is my intent to lead this company myself," he loftily informed the ruffler.

From Love-at-Arms by Sabatini, Rafael

In New Custome a morality, 1573, Creweltie, one of the characters, is termed a ruffler.

From Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters by Earle, John