[ adj ] noisy and lacking in restraint or discipline <adj.all> a boisterous crowda 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
It is just as important that any new DG can stand up to bullying from the likes of Mick Newmarch, the Pru's rumbustious boss, as from the Office of Fair Trading. Hard to imagine who would fit the bill given the ABI's current structure.
Not so much a series of rumbustious licks, Henderson's soloing consists of long, mellow and nagging passages, which both he and the listener can take some time to warm up to.
Neeme Jarvi and the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, the performers throughout this series, make a rumbustious case for it. The Piano Concerto was immediately more successful.
It was made for TV and should perhaps go straight there: though Colm Meaney's rumbustious performance as Dad deserves a bigger, better setting. The rest of Cannes has been show business as usual.