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  • adjective Alternative form of vigorous.

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Examples

  • After one particularly 'vigourous' Carnival when I was 16, I was laid low for a few days, confined to the couch in our tv room, feeling extremely sorry for myself and nursing not only a bad cold, but also terribly sore muscles.

    The Guardian World News 2010

  • But seriously, the idea of a driving test makes sense once you have experienced the 'vigourous' driving style of many Mexican bus and taxi drivers: -)

    Drivers Licenses 2004

  • Barbadian diaspora blogger Doan Mind Me, on the other hand, seems unconcerned, writing a humourously quirky post - which he calls the “book of Pork-etry” - suggesting, with a vigourous nod to George Orwell's Animal Farm, that the swine of the world are somehow getting their comeuppance:

    Global Voices in English » Caribbean: When Pigs Fly? 2009

  • Instead a carefully choreographed charade has been conducted under the heading of ‘line-by-line scrutiny’ accompanied by some vigourous whipping of backsliders who have had all manner of threats made to them.

    Archive 2008-03-02 2008

  • Hopefully they will be caught with their pants down yet again and a new Tory Government will be able to direct a more vigourous and penetrating enquiry than has hitherto been the case with Labour.

    Archive 2008-01-20 2008

  • When I cannot shake off tiredness after vigourous sports

    Matte black phones top people’s desires 2010

  • When I cannot shake off tiredness after vigourous sports

    Matte black phones top people’s desires 2010

  • It was interesting to note the vigourous nodding of heads at this.

    Archive 2008-04-01 Jonathan 2008

  • Hopefully they will be caught with their pants down yet again and a new Tory Government will be able to direct a more vigourous and penetrating enquiry than has hitherto been the case with Labour.

    Banana Republic News 2008

  • Instead a carefully choreographed charade has been conducted under the heading of ‘line-by-line scrutiny’ accompanied by some vigourous whipping of backsliders who have had all manner of threats made to them.

    The Tories Must Get Off the Fence Too 2008

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