operose
Example Sentences
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Stephens called it “dry operose quackery ... mere chaff not studied from nature, and therefore worthless, never felt, and therefore useless”.
From Nature ● Oct. 23, 2018
The girls marched past progressively tougher words, from heroine, blossom and dentifrice to operose, miscible and quadrumanous.
From Time Magazine Archive
He reposes on lion skins, suggestive of swift strength, leisurely superior to operose muscularity.
From Time Magazine Archive
The different modifications of the vowel sounds are effected by minute changes in the conformation of the organs; those of the articulations are made by more distinct and operose inflections of the organs.
From Elements of Gaelic Grammar by Alexander Stewart
In the execution, it was an operose business on both sides of the water.
From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 04 (of 12) by Edmund Burke
