iconoclast, firebrand, pragmatist, loose cannon, brash, reformer, young turk, populist, risk taker, renegade, outsider, politician, controversialist, waffler, wheeler dealer, nonconformist, larrikin, compromiser, hardliner, grandstander, elder statesman, visionary, chameleon, ideologue, hothead, ditherer, dilettante, realist, idealogue, gadfly, politican, provocateur, enfant terrible, panderer, bawler, taxer, liberal, dealmaker, individualist, workaholic, backwoodsman, thinker, peacenik, hardass, freethinker, oddball, doctrinaire, stormy petrel, maneuverer, establishmentarian, statesman, bon vivant, libertarian, showboater, patriot, theocrat, traditionalist, technocrat, meddler, francophile, idealist, battler, showman, septuagenarian, crackpot, womanizer, liberalist, archconservative, empiricist, macho, cowboy, quipster, everyman, grata, contrarian, conservatism, protege, blowhard, opportunist, tightwad, pugnacity, stalwart, kingmaker, audaciousness, constitutionalist, egghead, modernizer, fearmonger, exaggerator, hatchetman, sulker, canny, egomaniac, lunatic, egotist, loudmouth, mythmaker, talker, nouvelle vague, autodidactic, rugged individualist, irascibility, dissident, giants, luminaries, superstars, anarchist, mavericks, anarchists, bohemian, modernist, renegades, romantics, skeptics, stalwarts, atheists, circles, fascist, individualists, bold, distinguished, eminent, establishment, flamboyant, prominent, senior, sombre, ablest, achromatic, airy, allegoric, amateur, ancestor, androgynous, angelic, anonymous, answer, antic, antiestablishment

calf, nonconformist, recusant

irregular, rebel, unconventional, unorthodox