Indeed no party has the kind of rumbustious everyman with the chutzpah to carry it off. From Wordnik.com. [Eye on Britain] Reference
Suddenly we were all in rumbustious bounding mode. From Wordnik.com. [Last Chance to See]
It is, he said, a “more rumbustious media culture.”. From Wordnik.com. [The Gawker King] Reference
"Yon feller's right rumbustious, " she said with approval, eyes fixed on Jamie. From Wordnik.com. [A Breath of Snow and Ashes]
Keith Richards's Life Weidenfeld & Nicolson is a rumbustious but surprisingly well-remembered memoir of the rock'n'roll life. From Wordnik.com. [Readers recommend their favourite books of 2010] Reference
We do need to ensure, whether the playing is rumbustious or not, that there is a respect for your peers, however young they are. From Wordnik.com. [Little Boys Being "Feminized"? « Unambiguously Ambidextrous] Reference
The most common epithet heard in the rumbustious town hall meetings of the past month — hurled from both sides — has been "liar.". From Wordnik.com. [A Fighting Word That's Lost Its Punch] Reference
They did not sing the rumbustious marching songs which could make the miles melt beneath hard boots, but the soft, melancholic tunes of home. From Wordnik.com. [Sharpe's Rifles]
School, a brilliant and rumbustious teacher, who more or less man-handled me into sitting the competitive entrance examination for St Andrews University. From Wordnik.com. [Sir James W. Black - Autobiography] Reference
She called them a "child-people"; she was a schoolboy herself, a rumbustious, philistine English public schoolboy with a tremendous sense of honor, justice, and humor. From Wordnik.com. [Roughing It] Reference
To preserve my sanity, I went to the Wayback Machine and compiled some of their more rumbustious statements from back when the CRSC first got started & put them on my site. From Wordnik.com. [Nightline: Exposé on ID and the Discovery Institute - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
As their name suggests, this is rumbustious ska in the mould of Madness and Bad Manners, but with a chorus as brutally, straightforwardly effective as a David Beckham free-kick. From Wordnik.com. [England 2010 World Cup songs: the rundown] Reference
The debate has been rumbustious, but not especially enlightening. From Wordnik.com. [The Guardian World News] Reference
Desmond Swayne (squeaky clean so far, Con) was in rumbustious mood. From Wordnik.com. [Politics news, UK and world political comment and analysis | guardian.co.uk] Reference
We enjoyed a rumbustious conversation or two in the post-seminar bar. From Wordnik.com. [Latest News from Ekklesia] Reference
In the foreground, a group of rumbustious children are playing; someone is digging. From Wordnik.com. [The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed] Reference
The talented Robert Downey Jr. creates a rousting, jousting, carousing, rumbustious Holmes. From Wordnik.com. [The Hindu - Front Page] Reference
Out-and-out sexiness looks tired too - not in the rumbustious Katie Price world, obviously. From Wordnik.com. [Top stories from Times Online]
My memory is a rumbustious, lovely man who brought fun and laughter to any company he joined. From Wordnik.com. [Paul Flynn - Read My Day] Reference
New Jersey's suburbia with friends who regularly split up and two rumbustious children to deal with after work. From Wordnik.com. [Evening Standard - Home] Reference
Rambunctious is not in any of the new English dictionaries, but in Cassell I find rumbustious, probably its father. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 5. International Exchanges. 1. Americanisms in England] Reference
Yet another early start and, after a couple of meetings, to the chamber for what proves to be a fairly rumbustious Question Time. From Wordnik.com. [Epolitix News] Reference
The rumbustious drinking song with which he celebrates the king's reaction to his strategic play-within-the-play did not ring out. From Wordnik.com. [Opera Today] Reference
An effective and rumbustious shadow chancellor would have shown up the policies as nothing more than the old Thatcherite ideological driven responses. From Wordnik.com. [The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed] Reference
(called Ayesha in the show), who made her way as a choreographer in Mumbai's rumbustious movie industry. From Wordnik.com. [AustralianIT.com.au | Top Stories] Reference
137 The mock elegance and good taste of the Victorian soirée gave place to the rumbustious 'Charleston' and the 'Black Bottom'. From Wordnik.com. [The Big Apple] Reference
He was like a boy, a big rumbustious boy. From Wordnik.com. [River God]
"Applause all around the Britannia Stadium at the end of a rumbustious, deafening occasion. From Wordnik.com. [BBC News | News Front Page | World Edition] Reference
152nd over: England 499-7 Trott 163, Swann 18 Swann cuffs a rumbustious bunt back past Johnson's head and away for three to long-on. From Wordnik.com. [The Ashes 2010: Australia v England – day three live! | Andy Bull and Rob Smyth] Reference
The Mitford household was rumbustious. From Wordnik.com. [NYT > Home Page] Reference
Minister's act was as rumbustious as ever. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph] Reference
They made their way through the rumbustious crowd. From Wordnik.com. [The Vanishing Tower]
But the sperm whales are such raging, ramping, roaring, rumbustious fellows, that, if Mother. From Wordnik.com. [The Water-Babies] Reference
Rumania, 249 rumbustious, 163 rum-dumb, 104 rumour, 221 rumour, 221, 227 run, n., 56, 97, 125, 352; run v. From Wordnik.com. [Mencken, H] Reference
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