ruffian

We know the governor, despite his popularity and his toe-dips into bipartisanship, has a reputation as a ruffian.

This answer would have satisfied most Christians endowed with any moderate degree of patience; but not so the ruffian.

I had an interview with the hotelkeeper himself, a ruffian of the name of Doyle, about that.

"Dad and I are miscreants, and you are a ruffian and a desperate character," she told him gayly.