rumbustious

How To Use rumbustious In A Sentence

• A plant can be an obedient herb in one habitat and a rumbustious weed somewhere else.
• The first half of the concert moved from 16th century recorder music, through Mozart, vocal chamber music, on to rumbustious wind sea shanties and then a lively string quintet.
• The large crowds at race courses and football matches, rumbustious but not often posing a real problem of public order, reflected a disciplined and orderly workforce.
• Navy towns, as McKee reports, are no longer so rumbustious.
• Those five chapters were the start of her children's debut Fly By Night, a rumbustiously imagined rollick through the adventures of the black-eyed orphan Mosca Mye and her pugilistic goose Saracen. Frances Hardinge: a bucketful of whimsy
• Many rumbustious celebrations were held on this occasion!
• Someone with real authority in Scottish Labour should gently put an arm around him and suggest that if he can't handle merely being accused of anti-Scottishness in the course of what promises to be a rumbustious campaign he might wish to pursue another career. Poor Robert Burns. He deserves better than this | Kevin McKenna
• Here again is the rumbustious Silverstein sensibility, with its screwball humor, mixed-up whimsy, tenderheartedness and occasional dashes of vulgarity. When Life Depends On Scrabble
• beneath the rumbustious surface of his paintings is sympathy for the vulnerability of ordinary human beings
• There is a constant feeling of suppressed impatience from him, although every so often he breaks into a wheezy, rumbustious, infectious laugh.