operose
Example Sentences
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Stephens called it “dry operose quackery ... mere chaff not studied from nature, and therefore worthless, never felt, and therefore useless”.
From Nature ● Oct. 23, 2018
The girls marched past progressively tougher words, from heroine, blossom and dentifrice to operose, miscible and quadrumanous.
From Time Magazine Archive
He reposes on lion skins, suggestive of swift strength, leisurely superior to operose muscularity.
From Time Magazine Archive
Some of the Xenia are far-fetched and operose, while others sound rather vacuous.
From The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller by Calvin Thomas
The atmosphere of operose indolence, prolonged through centuries and centuries, stifles; nor can antiquity and influence impose upon a mind which resents monkery itself as an essential evil.
From Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Third series by John Addington Symonds
