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glorious

[glawr-ee-uhs, glohr-] / ˈglɔr i əs, ˈgloʊr- /


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A favorite Broadway actress sang “The Rochester Knockings at Barnum’s Hotel,” and Mysterious Knockings, “a new farce full of glorious fun and frolic,” played at a popular theater.

From Literature

The title character and occasional commentator, played as a gloomy babushka in a red headscarf by David Turner, foresees little hope for a glorious future.

From The Wall Street Journal

But with a man fewer, the principality team still scored again through Jordan Teze and Wout Faes missed a glorious chance to force extra time.

From Barron's

Think of the glorious Italian castle that several English women rent in “The Enchanted April.”

From The Wall Street Journal

Major Puff knows all about the glorious battles of the past, most involving the puffins’ wicked and vile enemy, the great black-backed gulls.

From Literature