Forcible-feeble

adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Having a vigorous appearance, but in reality weak or insipid. archaic

    "He would purge his book of much offensive matter, if he struck out epithets which are in the bad taste of the forcible-feeble school."

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"He would purge his book of much offensive matter, if he struck out epithets which are in the bad taste of the forcible-feeble school."

Etymology

From Francis Feeble, a character in William Shakespeare's Henry IV, Part 2, to whom Falstaff derisively applies the epithet forcible.

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