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
The ruffling is sometimes very nice and interesting and often gives the ruffler a good position in the glorious company of earlier rufflers——" "I shouldn't be satisfied with anything like that.
From Bertram Cope's Year by Fuller, Henry Blake
The carle smiled, and said to himself, Forsooth, yonder ruffler must needs clothe him in holiday raiment to do his doughty deed!
From The Sundering Flood by Morris, May
The poor ruffler was fallen into meditation, and noted not that his nag did no more than amble.
From The Tavern Knight by Sabatini, Rafael
As for Falconnet, he was even then a ruffler and a bully, though he was not of the army.
From The Master of Appleby A Novel Tale Concerning Itself in Part with the Great Struggle in the Two Carolinas; but Chiefly with the Adventures Therein of Two Gentlemen Who Loved One and the Same Lady by Lynde, Francis
