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Examples
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His pronunciation of the formidable Indian expressions and names is deft and unstrenuous.
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One reason for the rapidly growing preponderance of women -- and especially of unmarried women -- among our poetic leaders is, I think, to be found in the fact that women, more often than men, command the means of living for a generous portion of the year that vital, unstrenuous, contemplative existence demanded by poetry as an antecedent condition of its creation.
The Joyful Heart Robert Haven Schauffler 1921
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As far as he hated anything, he hated this work of his; long ago, had he been alone concerned, he would have dropped it, and taken to tramping the roads with boot-laces to sell, or some other equally unstrenuous and unlucrative avocation.
The Lee Shore Rose Macaulay 1919
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For the benefit, the moral and intellectual benefit of such people, it may be worth while to point out that the Anglo-Saxon has in these cases been defeated precisely by those competitors whom he has always regarded as being out of the running; by Latins, and by Latins of the most easy and unstrenuous type; not only by Frenchman, but by
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The quiescent melancholy of the town invaded his spirit, and mingled with his own remorseful sorrow for the unstrenuous past, and his apprehensive solicitude about the future.
Clayhanger Arnold Bennett 1899
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It was unstrenuous, soft; it had none of the busy harshness of the Midlands; it spoke of pleasure, relaxation, of spending free from all worry and humiliation of getting.
Clayhanger Arnold Bennett 1899
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As the horses came off the second turn, Sellers found an opening and brought her to the front with an unstrenuous hand ride.
chron.com Chronicle 2010
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