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fustian
noun
(fus-ti-an)
pompous or pretentious talk or writing
Synonyms:
blah
,
bombast
,
claptrap
,
rant
,
fustian
noun
(fus-ti-an)
a strong cotton and linen fabric with a slight nap
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fustian
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claptrap
,
bombast
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blah
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rant
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heretofore
,
grandiloquence
,
rebarbative
,
hifalutin
,
wishfulness
,
fustiness
,
unpoetic
,
brownism
,
mummery
,
polemically
,
overdetermined
,
unimprovable
,
flummery
,
danse macabre
,
overfamiliar
,
sophist
,
bromidic
,
excrescence
,
grubbiness
,
auteurism
,
substanceless
,
purblind
,
confected
,
nancy mitford
,
clownishness
,
apercus
,
jingo
,
forsooth
,
teacherly
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clodhopping
,
bluestocking
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nabokovian
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popinjay
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split infinitive
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shudderingly
,
captious
,
prudishly
,
journalese
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elides
,
wimple
,
sneery
,
gallimaufry
,
archaisms
,
hortatory
,
prolixity
,
bowdlerized
,
merkin
,
visaged
,
ghastliness
,
exhortatory
,
shakespearean sonnet
,
ruritanian
,
fuddy
,
disobliging
,
jocose
,
de trop
,
unmodern
,
jabberwocky
,
popery
,
expostulation
,
execration
,
pompousness
,
factuality
,
begetter
,
panegyrics
,
dilettantism
,
chaucerian
,
sophoclean
,
unaffecting
,
sheerest
,
dullish
,
unornamented
,
cibber
,
sententious
,
ripely
,
hieratic
,
brutalism
,
historicism
,
knee breeches
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stygian
,
max beerbohm
,
dandyism
,
hymned
,
punctiliousness
,
declaims
,
persiflage
,
quailing
,
nostalgist
,
sloganeer
,
pythonesque
,
objective correlative
,
plagiarizes
,
vacuous
,
insipidly
,
attitudinizing
,
dadaist
,
fustian
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