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

I wonder where next the young ruffler will go.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 99, September 6, 1890 by Various

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

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

Think you it is only a war-worn, hard-drinking, swashbuckling ruffler that can sin?

From The Tavern Knight by Sabatini, Rafael