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Robustious   Listen
adjective
Robustious  adj.  Robust. (Obs. or Humorous) "In Scotland they had handled the bishops in a more robustious manner."






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Robustious" Quotes from Famous Books



... Richard you might expect much, the awakening of a higher nature, a devotion to the regeneration of the world, humanitarianism, even the cult of all the "antis." From Dick you could expect nothing but health and cleanliness and robustious conventionality. Therefore Richard Captain Hazlewood of the Coldstream and the Staff Corps remained. "No, ...
— Witness For The Defense • A.E.W. Mason

... literature political satire more trenchant, humorous, forcible, and effective than the Biglow Papers, and nothing in Swift more original. It is said that it is ludicrous to compare the mild humor of Rip Van Winkle with the "robustious fun of Swift". But this is a curious "derangement of epitaphs". Swift has wit, and satiric power, and burning invective, and ribaldry, and caustic, scornful humor; but fun, in any just sense, he has ...
— Literary and Social Essays • George William Curtis

... predestination to an illustrious heirship and career. Dr Middleton's musings were coloured by the friendly vision of glasses of the great wine; his mind was festive; it pleased him, and he chose to indulge in his whimsical, robustious, grandiose-airy style of thinking: from which the festive mind will sometimes take a certain print that we cannot obliterate immediately. Expectation is grateful, you know; in the mood of gratitude we are waxen. And he ...
— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith



Words linked to "Robustious" :   boisterous, unruly, disorderly, rumbustious, rambunctious



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