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.
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His account of school life bursts at the seams with robustious good humor.
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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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But with a gobbet of chewing gum, Broadway's robustious Al Trahan stopped the show, rocked the Palladium with mighty mirth and convulsed the Royal Party.
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A robustious young fellow of sense and brains would have found in this lover of books and a bottle not a bad comrade.
From The House with the Green Shutters by Brown, George Douglas