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
His rumbustious, lyrically poetic novel was turned down, his agent confirms, by no fewer than 18 publishers.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 26, 2016
I also found amusement in comparing his meek wooing, like that of an early Italian amorist, with his rumbustious theories as to marriage by capture and other primitive methods of bringing woman to heel.
From Jaffery by William John Locke
