rumbustious

• “Indeed no party has the kind of rumbustious everyman with the chutzpah to carry it off.”

  Eye on Britain

• “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.”

  The Guardian: 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 Guardian: The Skating Rink by Roberto Bolaño – review

• “Keith Richards's Life Weidenfeld & Nicolson is a rumbustious but surprisingly well-remembered memoir of the rock'n'roll life.”

  The Guardian: Readers recommend their favourite books of 2010

• “Good", sweet caring girls stuck to prams and dolls' houses while "real" rumbustious, daring, active boys were given cars, guns, boats and planes It's a tribute to the sticking power of stereotypes that, as many more men are taking on child-rearing duties hence, perhaps, the reason why the everyday pushchair looks like an aeronautics gadget and more women are seen on the battle front, the kingdom of toys remains resolutely segregated on traditional lines.”

  The Guardian: Lucky boy raised without gender stereotypes | Yvonne Roberts

• “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.”

  The Guardian: Poor Robert Burns. He deserves better than this | Kevin McKenna

• “This is even more anthemic than their debut, with the rumbustious gang feel of early Dexys, chiming guitars and a chorus to bellow very loudly.”

  The Guardian: F&M playlist

• “The jokes are pushed to their limits but it's skilfully done, with excellent singing notably Julia Riley, Clint van der Linde, Laura Mitchell and rumbustious playing from the Old Street Band conducted by Jonathan Peter Kenny.”

  The Guardian: Lucerne Festival Orchestra; Xerxes; La bohème – review

• “Here again is the rumbustious Silverstein sensibility, with its screwball humor, mixed-up whimsy, tenderheartedness and occasional dashes of vulgarity.”

  The Wall Street Journal: When Life Depends On Scrabble

• “Some believe new shows, including Randall and Boulton Unleashed, anchored by the channel's political editor and its rumbustious, Brown-baiting business editor Jeff Randall, signal that Sky is already taking a tentative step in that direction.”

  The Guardian: Adam Boulton: The pugilist of the airwaves

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