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

The carle smiled, and said to himself, Forsooth, yonder ruffler must needs clothe him in holiday raiment to do his doughty deed!

From The Sundering Flood by Morris, May

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 Sabatini, Rafael

In New Custome a morality, 1573, Creweltie, one of the characters, is termed a ruffler.

From Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters by Earle, John

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 Sabatini, Rafael