rumbustious
Example Sentences
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The rumbustious pirate, now looking at 50, with salt sprinkled through his red beard, sounds oddly subdued.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 27, 2026
Shakespeare’s Globe has filmed several versions including Brazilian company Grupo Galpão’s rumbustious visit for the 2012 Globe to Globe festival.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 19, 2021
Appropriately, then, Lovell’s translation carries a foreword by Gene Luen Yang, MacArthur-Award-winning author of the graphic novel “American Born Chinese,” which draws on this rumbustious fantasy.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 3, 2021
The rumbustious suffragettes are relegated to small etchings on the new statue’s plinth, a marginalisation that hints at lingering unease with their methods.
From Economist ● Apr. 19, 2018
I also found amusement in comparing his meek wooing, like that of an early Italian amorist, with his rumbustious theories as to marriage by capture and other primitive methods of bringing woman to heel.
From Jaffery by Locke, William John
