Meaning of forcible-feeble | Babel Free

Definitions

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

archaic

Examples

“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.”

“But [allegory] is apt to spoil two good things—a story and a moral, a meaning and a form; and the taste for it is responsible for a large part of the forcible feeble writing that has been inflicted on the world.”

“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 […]”

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