robustious
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Three Oranges is certainly the broadest burlesque ever set on an opera stage, and the richest fun ever made out of grand opera's robustious airs.
From Time Magazine Archive
"A railroad," Canadian National's robustious Sir Henry Worth Thornton has said time & again, "is never finished."
From Time Magazine Archive
His account of school life bursts at the seams with robustious good humor.
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.
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Oh, it offends me to the soul to hear a robustious, periwig-pated fellow —— a passion to tatters, to very rags, to split the ears of the groundlings.
From English Synonyms and Antonyms With Notes on the Correct Use of Prepositions by Fernald, James Champlin
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