operose

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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

Sabinus apparently started work on a calendar-poem, which may have resembled the Fasti; compare Fast I 101 'uates operose dierum'.

From The Last Poems of Ovid by Akrigg, Mark Bear

The style too is in many places below Leighton's ordinary style—in some places even turbid, operose, and catechrestic;—for example,—"to trample on smilings with one foot and on frownings with the other."

From Coleridge's Literary Remains, Volume 4. by Coleridge, Samuel Taylor