rumbustious
Example Sentences
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The rumbustious pirate, now looking at 50, with salt sprinkled through his red beard, sounds oddly subdued.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 27, 2026
Like rumbustious Walt Whitman, “The Heart of American Poetry” is large and contains multitudes, being part “Song of Myself” and part July Fourth celebration.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 27, 2022
The rumbustious suffragettes are relegated to small etchings on the new statue’s plinth, a marginalisation that hints at lingering unease with their methods.
From Economist ● Apr. 19, 2018
They did not bend for anybody and Chelsea were reminded of that after another rumbustious occasion at the old ground.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 12, 2015
The chief fault the superficial modern critic has to find with Dickens is a sort of rumbustious boisterousness in the expression of emotion.
From My Contemporaries In Fiction by David Christie Murray
