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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Author Morley, smiling, robustious, pensive, was present as master of ceremonies.
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But with a gobbet of chewing gum, Broadway's robustious Al Trahan stopped the show, rocked the Palladium with mighty mirth and convulsed the Royal Party.
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Danger, at first robustious, softens so far as to say that he has no objection to the Lover loving, only he had better keep clear of his roses.
From The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II) by George Saintsbury
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