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

He regarded them all not at all, showing no feeling of disgrace at his position, and no desire to carry himself as a ruffler.

From Can You Forgive Her? by Trollope, Anthony

The ruffler paused a moment, as if awaiting a reply or a word of encouragement.

From The Tavern Knight by Sabatini, Rafael

He.—I would do like all other beggars set on horseback: I would be the most insolent ruffler that has ever been seen.

From Diderot and the Encyclopædists Volume II. by Morley, John

The ruffling is sometimes very nice and interesting and often gives the ruffler a good position in the glorious company of earlier rufflers——" "I shouldn't be satisfied with anything like that.

From Bertram Cope's Year by Fuller, Henry Blake