robustious
Example Sentences
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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.
From Time Magazine Archive
His upward push within the company was interrupted just after the War, when he joined Joseph Stephen Cullinan, Texaco's first robustious president, in another oil venture.
From Time Magazine Archive
His account of school life bursts at the seams with robustious good humor.
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
He looked leaner and frailer and less robustious than of old.
From The Prairie Mother by Becher, Arthur E.
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