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
He reposes on lion skins, suggestive of swift strength, leisurely superior to operose muscularity.
From Time Magazine Archive
The girls marched past progressively tougher words, from heroine, blossom and dentifrice to operose, miscible and quadrumanous.
From Time Magazine Archive
His, operose puer, si qua fata aspera rumpas, Tu rixator eris.
From Verses and Translations by Calverley, Charles Stuart
Well, I go on in the office, operose nihil agenda, very operose, and very nihil too.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 54, April, 1862 by Various
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
