ruffler
Example Sentences
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"Uncle Charlie," as his Columbia students called him, was also a great ruffler of conventional thought.
From Time Magazine Archive
There was a truculent, Southern pride in the ruffler which sprang immediately into life and which naught that they could say thereafter would stamp out.
From Saint Martin's Summer by Rafael Sabatini
Then depart from the house with as little shame as a ruffler and a churl may have.
From The Sundering Flood by May Morris
He was as bold and venturesome as the bravest ruffler that ever backed a dog at a baiting.
From A Book of Scoundrels by Charles Whibley
The poor ruffler was fallen into meditation, and noted not that his nag did no more than amble.
From The Tavern Knight by Rafael Sabatini
