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forcible-feeble
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tags: [obsolete] [rare]
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Definition:speciously forceful; insipidly vigorous---Seemingly vigorous, but really weak or insipid.Noah Webster. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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[Prof. Ayton] would purge his book of much offensive matter, if he struck out epithets which are in the bad taste of the forcible-feeble school.
N. Brit. Review.
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Skin-the-Goat, assuming he was he, evidently with an axe to grind, was airing his grievances in a forcible-feeble philippic anent the natural resources of Ireland, or something of that sort, which he described in his lengthy dissertation as the richest country bar none on the face of God’s earth, far and away superior to EnglandJames Joyce. Ulysses
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