rumbustious
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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
Shakespeare’s Globe has filmed several versions including Brazilian company Grupo Galpão’s rumbustious visit for the 2012 Globe to Globe festival.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 19, 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 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
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