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UK
/ɹʌmbˈʌsʃəs/
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ADJECTIVE
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noisy and lacking in restraint or discipline
beneath the rumbustious surface of his paintings is sympathy for the vulnerability of ordinary human beings
a boisterous crowd
a robustious group of teenagers
a social gathering that became rambunctious and out of hand
an unruly class
How To Use rumbustious In A Sentence
- Assumptions that the culprit was the Stoke City fan Malcolm Clarke, viewed by many of his peers in the FA council as its most rumbustious member, would be wide of the mark. Football League clubs debate wage restraint to curb losses
- The Savage Detectives is a rumbustious account of idealist anarchist poets which drew an international audience. The Skating Rink by Roberto Bolaño – review
- He encouraged us to read a great deal, too, especially the great rumbustious nineteenth-century French novels, for my father's temperament is for the romantic, the extravagant, the wild and poetic and beautiful.
- Lord Hailsham was one of the most rumbustious politicians of his age.
- The rumbustious humor, gleefully mixing sex, scatology and food, resembles Fellini at his most burlesque, while the hints of the surreal and the supernatural recall South American magic realism.
- Nothing in the work is more engaging than the start of the finale, where rumbustious high spirits reform into an infectious polacca.
- The dinners were rumbustious affairs and the focal point was the food. Times, Sunday Times
- The script is the usual rumbustious homage to the twin horrors of suburbia and impending doom. Times, Sunday Times
- The dinners were rumbustious affairs and the focal point was the food. Times, Sunday Times
- The script is the usual rumbustious homage to the twin horrors of suburbia and impending doom. Times, Sunday Times
