rumbustious

Example Sentences

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Like rumbustious Walt Whitman, “The Heart of American Poetry” is large and contains multitudes, being part “Song of Myself” and part July Fourth celebration.

From Washington Post • Apr. 27, 2022

As the well-read Schweitzer unobtrusively acknowledges, he borrowed Sherlock’s alternate 19th-century Britain from Joan Aiken’s rumbustious Dido Twite novels.

From Washington Post • Apr. 6, 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 learned later Gran's parents were Welsh-speaking, but hadn't passed on the skill, and if they were talking in Welsh around rumbustious young Milly she could be fairly sure she was in trouble - again.

From BBC • Jan. 16, 2015

The rumbustious ogre has a hitherto undescribed, but quite imaginable, gap-toothed, beetle-browed ogress of a wife.

From Jaffery by Locke, William John