The Collaborative International Dictionary
Forcible-feeble
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.
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.
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Wiktionary
forcible-feeble
a. Seemingly vigorous, but really weak or insipid.