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These guiding principles are advanced with brisk savvy in Royal Flash, which has to do with the exploits of Captain Harry Flashman, a rogue, prig, tosspot and coward, and proud of every bit of it.

From Time Magazine Archive

Critic Swaffer, tall, stringy, in his 50's, convivial, well-to-do, was once a famed young tosspot.

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Frans Hals, father of 14 and no mean tosspot himself, attacked the canvas with all the enthusiasm of his age, disdaining preliminary sketches in favor of a bold, direct approach with brushes loaded with paint.

From Time Magazine Archive

Sir: It was surprising to learn from Upton Sinclair that Stephen Crane, the short-lived author of The Red Badge of Courage, is categorized as a tosspot.

From Time Magazine Archive

How? soul of a pickle-herring, body of a spagirical tosspot, doublet of motley, and mantle of pilgrim, how art thou transmuted!

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 12, No. 32, November, 1873 by Various