Definition of "robustious" [ro•bus•tious]

• Boisterous; vigorous: a robustious group of teenagers. (adjective)
• Rough, coarse, or crude: a robustious comedy. (adjective)

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• "Dropping down on the sofa with his head laid low and his feet thrown up in a favourite attitude on the back, which must, I imagine, have been at least as easy as it was elegant, he began the conversation by bantering me upon what he called my "robustious" appearance compared with what he had been led to expect from gloomy reports of uncertain health."
• "O, it offends me to the soul to hear a robustious periwig-pated fellow tear a passion to tatters, to very rags, to split the ears of the groundlings, who for the most part are capable of nothing but inexplicable dumb shows and noise."
• "In November a new President of the USA will be elected after a robustious campaign by perhaps 140 million Americans."