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

As the well-read Schweitzer unobtrusively acknowledges, he borrowed Sherlock’s alternate 19th-century Britain from Joan Aiken’s rumbustious Dido Twite novels.

From Washington Post • Apr. 6, 2021

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

The ‘yes’ campaign managed to get up an altogether more rumbustious – and better-attended – demonstration than the one on Tuesday in Syntagma Square, which was marred by rain.

From The Guardian • Jul. 4, 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 Murray, David Christie