robustious

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His upward push within the company was interrupted just after the War, when he joined Joseph Stephen Cullinan, Texaco's first robustious president, in another oil venture.

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Author Morley, smiling, robustious, pensive, was present as master of ceremonies.

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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.

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Last week, with a robustious performance of Rigoletto, the Rome Opera's 1949 summer season came to a close.

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All this strikes one as healthy, even when expressed, as by Clifford, with somewhat too much of robustious pathos in the voice.

From The Will to Believe : and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy by James, William