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The state contends he hired Joe Gentz, 50, a local roustabout, to kill his wife of 26 years.

Conservatives, notably Rush Limbaugh, leapt on CBS today to complain that late night would now be an overtly left-wing roustabout.

More likely to be a stowaway on a merchantman and then roustabout on a cattle boat, or some such thing.

Burris is always yelling about not getting enough overtime work, but you know how it is: he's just a roustabout, a common laborer.

A razor-back, or tent roustabout, struck Johnny on the head with a tent stake.

I was housemaid and roustabout from sunrise to weary sunset.

Then Kearny leaped to his feet and wrung my hand with the strength of a roustabout.

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On this page you'll find 21 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to roustabout, such as: drudge, farmhand, grunt, hand, hireling, and operative.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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