robustious
Example Sentences
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Last week, with a robustious performance of Rigoletto, the Rome Opera's 1949 summer season came to a close.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
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
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.
From Time Magazine Archive
Had not the Deacon ranked him in the robustious great company of Burns!
From The House with the Green Shutters by Brown, George Douglas
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