Rumbustious in a sentence as an adjective

Arnold was responding with infinitely more courtesy than Leavis to an earlier lecture by T H Huxley, known as "Darwin's Bulldog" for his rumbustious defence of evolution, who argued that science was as valid an intellectual training as the classics. It was not a popular opinion.

Rumbustious definitions

adjective

noisy and lacking in restraint or discipline; "a boisterous crowd"; "a social gathering that became rambunctious and out of hand"; "a robustious group of teenagers"; "beneath the rumbustious surface of his paintings is sympathy for the vulnerability of ordinary human beings"; "an unruly class"

See also: boisterous rambunctious robustious unruly