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

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

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

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

He was no roisterer, and his habits were clean.

From The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers by Merwin, Henry Childs