strumous
Americanadjective
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These other poor devils, worried, stiff, strumous, awkward, vapid, and rather coarse, with here and there a passably pretty woman, are European kings, queens, grand-dukes, and the like.
From An Unsocial Socialist by Bernard Shaw
If the infant derives the disposition to a strumous constitution entirely from the father, and the mother's health be unexceptionable, then I would strongly advise her to suckle her own child.
From The Maternal Management of Children, in Health and Disease by Thomas Bull
The child is strumous, however, and may die young.
From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Walter L. (Walter Lytle) Pyle
I have not room to give illustrations of other types--namely, that with coarse and blunted features, or the strumous one, nor any of the intermediates.
From Inquiries into Human Faculty and Its Development by Sir Francis Galton
The child of a strumous habit may be greatly benefited by sea bathing, united with a few years' residence on the coast.
From The Maternal Management of Children, in Health and Disease by Thomas Bull
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