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

Last week a dire project was under way to introduce into this quiet Eden a prodigious roisterer, a mighty brawler, a veritable Serpent-Man.

From Time Magazine Archive

And�perhaps surprisingly�he is better as the fat roisterer than he was as the melancholy Dane.

From Time Magazine Archive

He saw Sue, all in white, radiant and wonderful, coming toward him down a broad stairway, toward him, the newsboy of Caxton, the smuggler of game, the roisterer, the greedy moneygetter.

From Windy McPherson's Son by Anderson, Sherwood