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CIDE DICTIONARY
forcible-feeble, 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. [1913 Webster]
"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."
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