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
No doubt since the accomplishment was mine it became in her eyes characteristic of a bully and a ruffler.
From The Suitors of Yvonne: being a portion of the memoirs of the Sieur Gaston de Luynes 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
Now—now in the crib, where a ruffler may lie, Without fear that the traps should distress him, With a drop in the mouth, and a drop in the eye, Here's to Gentleman George,—God bless him!
From Paul Clifford — Complete by Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron Lytton
But whose son he is I may not say, for Heaven denies having borne this ruffler, and so Earth and so Sea.
From Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology by J. W. (John William) Mackail
