tosspot

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Sad-eyed, lanky Artist Utrillo got a tosspot reputation in his youth, produced, nevertheless, many serious and hauntingly gifted paintings, and for at least ten years has been sober as a church.

From Time Magazine Archive

As a tosspot, as a trencherman he was Gargantuan.

From Time Magazine Archive

Trick Topper sequences: water in a shower bath bouncing off Miss Bennett's invisible figure; sheep dogs hurtling through the air; Roland Young, superb as a tosspot, reeling across the floor seemingly unsupported.

From Time Magazine Archive

But it is from his new friend Vicente Hidalgo, a revolutionist gone to seed and now a tosspot clairvoyant, that Harmon regains a larger sense of manhood.

From Time Magazine Archive

Pitchforking statesmen and tosspot reformers will be unable to play at pitch-and-toss with reputations not submitted for the performance.

From The Shadow On The Dial, and Other Essays 1909 by Howes, S. O. (Silas Orrin)