operose

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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

He reposes on lion skins, suggestive of swift strength, leisurely superior to operose muscularity.

From Time Magazine Archive

The girls marched past progressively tougher words, from heroine, blossom and dentifrice to operose, miscible and quadrumanous.

From Time Magazine Archive

An operose and expensive establishment of a Supreme Court was made, and charged upon the revenues of the country.

From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 08 (of 12) by Burke, Edmund

How came it, when a Greek sculptor had completed some operose performance, that his countrymen bore him in triumph thro' their city, and rejoiced in his prosperity as identical with their own?

From The Germ Thoughts towards Nature in Poetry, Literature and Art by Rossetti, Dante Gabriel