Thesaurus / fustian
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He wrote and read, and smoked and wrote, rising early, and talking fustian.
TOBACCO; ITS HISTORY, VARIETIES, CULTURE, MANUFACTURE AND COMMERCEE. R. BILLINGS.Even in fustian garments nobility hides with difficulty from keen and suspicious eyes.
THE LIGHT THAT LURESPERCY BREBNERYes, there were swells here, ball-room coxcombs in fustian and felt.
MYSTIC LONDON:CHARLES MAURICE DAVIESReturn to his bedroom, throw off the clothes, beat the featherbed, see that the fustian and sheets are clean.
EARLY ENGLISH MEALS AND MANNERSVARIOUSThe knight is first dressed in a doublet of fustian, lined with satin, which is cut with holes for ventilation.
ARMOUR & WEAPONSCHARLES JOHN FFOULKESThis satin was to keep the roughness of the fustian from the wearers body; for he wore no shirt under it.
ARMOUR & WEAPONSCHARLES JOHN FFOULKESMany penalties and forfeitures are laid on the persons who so treacherously corrupt honest fustian.
CHAMBERS'S EDINBURGH JOURNAL, NO. 443VARIOUSHe frequently calls them "absurd," and applies to them such epithets as "jargon," "fustian," and the like.
"STOPS"PAUL ALLARDYCESome of our own contemporaries we hate particularly; Cobbett, for instance, and other bad fellows in fustian and corduroys.
THE POSTHUMOUS WORKS OF THOMAS DE QUINCEY, VOL. 1 (2 VOLS)THOMAS DE QUINCEYIt was open, and in it lay the body of a young man, wearing the smockfrock of a rustic, and fustian breeches.
GREAT GHOST STORIESVARIOUSWORDS RELATED TO FUSTIAN
- aggrandized
- amplified
- augmented
- aureate
- bloated
- bombastic
- diffuse
- dilated
- distended
- dropsical
- enlarged
- euphuistic
- extended
- filled
- flatulent
- flowery
- fustian
- grandiloquent
- grown
- hot-air
- magnified
- magniloquent
- ostentatious
- overblown
- overestimated
- pompous
- pretentious
- prolix
- puffed
- pumped-up
- ranting
- rhapsodical
- rhetorical
- showy
- spread
- stretched
- surcharged
- swollen
- tumescent
- tumid
- turgid
- verbose
- windy
- wordy
- abracadabra
- argot
- balderdash
- banality
- bombast
- bunk
- buzzwords
- cant
- cliché
- colloquialism
- commonplace term
- doublespeak
- drivel
- fustian
- gibberish
- hackneyed term
- idiom
- insipidity
- lexicon
- lingo
- mumbo jumbo
- neologism
- newspeak
- nonsense
- overused term
- palaver
- parlance
- patois
- patter
- rigmarole
- shoptalk
- slang
- slanguage
- speech
- stale language
- street talk
- tongue
- trite language
- twaddle
- usage
- vernacular
- vocabulary
- absurd
- aimless
- blank
- doesn't cut it
- double-talk
- doublespeak
- empty
- feckless
- fustian
- futile
- good-for-nothing
- hollow
- hot air
- inane
- inconsequential
- insignificant
- insubstantial
- nonsensical
- nothing
- nugatory
- pointless
- purportless
- purposeless
- senseless
- trifling
- trivial
- unimportant
- unmeaning
- unpurposed
- useless
- vacant
- vague
- vain
- valueless
- vapid
- worthless
- affected
- bloated
- boastful
- bombastic
- conceited
- flatulent
- flaunting
- flowery
- fustian
- grandiloquent
- grandiose
- high-and-mighty
- high-flown
- highfalutin
- imperious
- important
- inflated
- magisterial
- magniloquent
- narcissistic
- orotund
- ostentatious
- overbearing
- overblown
- pontifical
- portentous
- presumptuous
- pretentious
- puffed-up
- rhetorical
- self-centered
- self-important
- selfish
- showy
- sonorous
- stuck-up
- supercilious
- turgid
- uppity
- vain
- vainglorious
- windy
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