robustious
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After flitting into Britain to plug one of her movies, robustious Jayne Mansfield ran afoul of an unchivalrous lensman, emerged on film as a cow in leopard's clothing.
From Time Magazine Archive
P. A. L., his first novel, was the robustious biography of a U. S. promoter and wildcat bunco artist, "P. A. L. Tangerman."
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
His account of school life bursts at the seams with robustious good humor.
From Time Magazine Archive
Danger, at first robustious, softens so far as to say that he has no objection to the Lover loving, only he had better keep clear of his roses.
From The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II) by Saintsbury, George
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