rumbustious

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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

Attitudinally, the parties are thinking this is not going to be a rumbustious campaign in the swashbuckling sense.

From BBC • Sep. 17, 2013

The chief fault the superficial modern critic has to find with Dickens is a sort of rumbustious boisterousness in the expression of emotion.

From My Contemporaries In Fiction by Murray, David Christie