forcible-feeble

形容词 adj.
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英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Having a vigorous appearance, but in reality, weak or insipid. dated
    — 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.

词形变化

more forcible-feeble comparative most forcible-feeble superlative forcible-Feeble alternative

词源

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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