robustious
Americanadjective
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rough; boisterous
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strong, robust, or stout
Other Word Forms
- robustiously adverb
- robustiousness noun
Etymology
Origin of robustious
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Example Sentences
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Author Morley, smiling, robustious, pensive, was present as master of ceremonies.
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
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
"A railroad," Canadian National's robustious Sir Henry Worth Thornton has said time & again, "is never finished."
From Time Magazine Archive
No doubt it was a drain on vitality to live abreast of such a man, to keep step with his robustious stride.
From On the Stairs by Fuller, Henry Blake
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