roisterer
Example Sentences
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He is every flabby inch the ramshackle roisterer, who announces the keynote of his unbuttoned, spilling-over performance in his spluttering rejection of the notion that he "confine" himself.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 23, 2011
Parsons, a solid newsman and no roisterer, tried to put a new polish on the old formula by adding such features as David Low's cartoons and increasing the coverage of international news.
From Time Magazine Archive
Many suffered from "his scheming tricks ... his dirty dealing and underhand passing of coin, all the shabby pretense in the double-faced glutton and roisterer."
From Time Magazine Archive
Within a month Darnley had shown himself to be a selfish, inconstant, drunken roisterer, vicious and contemptible.
From Time Magazine Archive
The coming event seemed to cast its shadow before; and throughout the night the roisterer or belated traveller made a détour to visit the human shambles.
From Mystic London: or, Phases of occult life in the metropolis by Charles Maurice Davies
