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

Misserrimam ergo necesse est, non tantum brevissimam, vitam eorum esse, qui magno parant labore, quod majore possideant: operose assequuntur quæ volunt, anxii tenent quæ assecuti sunt.

From Dealings with the Dead, Volume I (of 2) by School, A Sexton of the Old

The common Scotch saying, on the sight of anything operose and finical, "he must have had little to do that made that!" might be put as epigraph on all the song books of old France.

From Familiar Studies of Men and Books by Stevenson, Robert Louis