ruffler
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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 poor ruffler was fallen into meditation, and noted not that his nag did no more than amble.
From The Tavern Knight by Rafael Sabatini
There was a truculent, Southern pride in the ruffler which sprang immediately into life and which naught that they could say thereafter would stamp out.
From Saint Martin's Summer by Rafael Sabatini
He thought next—and with increasing bitterness—of his own brave schemes, of his love for Valentina, and of how assured he had been that his affections were returned, before this ruffler came amongst them.
From Love-at-Arms by Rafael Sabatini
As bold and dominant as any ruffler of them all where men and perils were concerned, young Everard was timid, bashful and without assertiveness with women.
From The Lion's Skin by Rafael Sabatini
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