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robustious

[roh-buhs-chuhs] / roʊˈbʌs tʃəs /


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After serving as host at a heaping Thanksgiving dinner for elderly folks, Boston's unpompous Archbishop Richard J. Cushing shifted into high, merrily danced an Irish jig with two robustious ewes of his diocesan flock.

From Time Magazine Archive

Opera House Permit Yale's robustious, tweedy Professor Yandell Henderson last week recapitulated his researches on lungs.

From Time Magazine Archive

Three Oranges is certainly the broadest burlesque ever set on an opera stage, and the richest fun ever made out of grand opera's robustious airs.

From Time Magazine Archive

His account of school life bursts at the seams with robustious good humor.

From Time Magazine Archive

He reminds me of a decrepit but robustious old rooster repossessing himself of a chicken-run after the decapitation of an arrogant and envied rival.

From The Prairie Mother by Becher, Arthur E.




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