FORCIBLE-FEEBLE

a.

1 definition — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


a.

Seemingly vigorous, but really weak or insipid. He [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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