robustious
Americanadjective
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rough; boisterous
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strong, robust, or stout
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Opera House Permit Yale's robustious, tweedy Professor Yandell Henderson last week recapitulated his researches on lungs.
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After flitting into Britain to plug one of her movies, robustious Jayne Mansfield ran afoul of an unchivalrous lensman, emerged on film as a cow in leopard's clothing.
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P. A. L., his first novel, was the robustious biography of a U. S. promoter and wildcat bunco artist, "P. A. L. Tangerman."
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Watching Scofield slip effortlessly from dying Volpone to robustious Fox is as fascinating as the unfolding of his intricate schemes.
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Inflated with the importance of his office, inflamed with heat, sat Titus, like a "robustious periwig-pated" alderman after a civic feast.
From Rookwood by William Harrison Ainsworth
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