Forcible-feeble \For"ci*ble-fee`ble\, a. [From Feeble, a
character in the Second Part of Shakespeare's "King Henry
IV.," to whom Falstaff derisively applies the epithet
"forcible."]
Seemingly vigorous, but really weak or insipid.
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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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