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
No doubt since the accomplishment was mine it became in her eyes characteristic of a bully and a ruffler.
From The Suitors of Yvonne: being a portion of the memoirs of the Sieur Gaston de Luynes by Rafael Sabatini
There was a truculent, Southern pride in the ruffler which sprang immediately into life and which naught that they could say thereafter would stamp out.
From Saint Martin's Summer by Rafael Sabatini
Think you it is only a war-worn, hard-drinking, swashbuckling ruffler that can sin?
From The Tavern Knight by Rafael Sabatini
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 Francis Lynde
