flamboyantly

as inpompously
as ingaily

Synonyms for flamboyantly

adv pretentiously

Antonyms for flamboyantly

pompously

adverb. pretentiously

Word Origin & History

1832, first used of a 15c.-16c. architectural style with flame-like curves, from French flamboyant "flaming, wavy," present participle of flamboyer "to flame," from Old French flamboier (12c.), from flambe "flame," from flamble, variant of flamme, from Latin flammula (see flame (n.)). Extended sense of "showy, ornate" is 1879. Related: Flamboyantly.

Example Sentences for flamboyantly

For the next mile only the flamboyantly gorgeous or the flamboyantly simple beauty caught his overfed eye.

I could see the clean-cut features of the latter, and his gestures, strongly but not flamboyantly made.

For one thing, King Yoorkerk's flamboyantly named regiments weren't quite as bad as Paula had thought.

He had stood buoyantly expectant; he received it flamboyantly calm.

A disposition to deny the student the right to reach conclusions in the laboratory,—or, as we flamboyantly say, to "generalize."

Young Lawyer Bourne placed Peleg in nomination, did so noisily, flamboyantly, with waving of arms and screaming of eagle.

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