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la-di-da
adjective as in affected
Weak matches
- apish
- artificial
- assumed
- awkward
- campy
- chichi
- conceited
- contrived
- counterfeit
- counterfeited
- faked
- false
- feigned
- fraud
- gone Hollywood
- ham
- hammy
- highfalutin
- hollow
- imitated
- insincere
- mannered
- melodramatic
- ostentatious
- overdone
- pedantic
- phony
- playacting
- pompous
- precious
- pretended
- pretentious
- put on
- schmaltzy
- self-conscious
- shallow
- sham
- simulated
- spurious
- stiff
- stilted
- studied
- superficial
- theatrical
- unnatural
Example Sentences
Her catchphrase, “Oh well, la-di-da, la-di-da,” became iconic.
Ms. Keaton’s la-di-da breeziness was one of her most sneakily beguiling qualities; she came across as the best friend you’d love to confide in because you knew she didn’t hold herself higher than you.
“If you send him here, to this la-di-da school, he’ll forget who he is and be afraid of his own people.”
"At the risk of sounding la-di-da, this is, truly, my Proustian madeleine."
And then, la-di-da, they’ll go back to pretending this is a normal presidency rather than a runaway train.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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