robustious
Americanadjective
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rough; boisterous
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strong, robust, or stout
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His upward push within the company was interrupted just after the War, when he joined Joseph Stephen Cullinan, Texaco's first robustious president, in another oil venture.
From Time Magazine Archive
Opera House Permit Yale's robustious, tweedy Professor Yandell Henderson last week recapitulated his researches on lungs.
From Time Magazine Archive
Three Oranges is certainly the broadest burlesque ever set on an opera stage, and the richest fun ever made out of grand opera's robustious airs.
From Time Magazine Archive
Last week, with a robustious performance of Rigoletto, the Rome Opera's 1949 summer season came to a close.
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Join in, give voice robustious rude and rough,— Avison helps—so heart lend noise enough!
From Browning's England A Study in English Influences in Browning by Clarke, Helen Archibald
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