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Robustious

adjective
1.
Noisy and lacking in restraint or discipline.  Synonyms: boisterous, rambunctious, rumbustious, unruly.  "A social gathering that became rambunctious and out of hand" , "A robustious group of teenagers" , "Beneath the rumbustious surface of his paintings is sympathy for the vulnerability of ordinary human beings" , "An unruly class"






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"Robustious" Quotes from Famous Books



... of a reconciling kind. But as philosophers aiming at clearness and consistency, and feeling the pragmatistic need of squaring truth with truth, the question is forced upon us of frankly adopting either the tender or the robustious type of thought. In particular THIS query has always come home to me: May not the claims of tender-mindedness go too far? May not the notion of a world already saved in toto anyhow, be too saccharine to stand? May not religious optimism be too idyllic? Must ALL be saved? Is NO ...
— Pragmatism - A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking • William James

... Chartist agitation, satire has more and more tended to lose its acid and its venom, to slough the dark sardonic sarcasm of past days and to don the light sportive garb of the social humorist and epigrammist. Robustious bludgeoning has gone out of fashion, and in its place we have the playful satiric wit, sparkling as of well-drawn Moet or Clicquot, of Mortimer Collins, H.S. Leigh, Arthur Locker and Frederick Locker-Lampson, W.S. Gilbert, Austin Dobson, Bret Harte, F. Anstey, ...
— English Satires • Various



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



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