Thesaurus / magisterial
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Elba is always magisterial, and for years now, his fans have been floating his name as a candidate for the next James Bond.
IDRIS ELBA BRINGS A REGAL URBAN COWBOY TO LIFE IN CONCRETE COWBOYSTEPHANIE ZACHAREKAPRIL 2, 2021TIMEIt is a picture of tragic grandeur, painted in sombre and magisterial colours on the fiery vault of hell.
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE, HIS LIFETHOPHILE GAUTIEROld Lecamus maintained his paternal and magisterial dignity; he observed his son and said little.
CATHERINE DE' MEDICIHONORE DE BALZACDuring the difficult beginnings of a household I, perhaps, assumed a magisterial tone?
HONORINEHONORE DE BALZACRelinquishing his magisterial powers, necessity compelled him to return home before spring, accompanied by some of his people.
WILLIAM BRADFORD OF PLYMOUTHALBERT HALE PLUMBSuch was the man entrusted with more than magisterial power.
THE HISTORY OF TASMANIA , VOLUME II (OF 2)JOHN WESTAnd what a handle would it be for the opposition magisterial party if the story got abroad!
THE PICKWICK PAPERSCHARLES DICKENSAhone had a subordinate deity, magisterial in functions, "looking into all men's actions" and punishing the same, when evil.
MYTH, RITUAL, AND RELIGION, VOL. 1ANDREW LANGThe gardener there was still engaged in his belated mowing, and Lady Ellington examined the cutter with a magisterial air.
THE ANGEL OF PAINE. F. BENSONThe stranger, just as the soup was being put on the table, got up, and with a magisterial tone of voice addressed the assembly.
BENTLEY'S MISCELLANY, VOLUME IIVARIOUSWORDS RELATED TO MAGISTERIAL
- affected
- bloated
- boastful
- bombastic
- conceited
- flatulent
- flaunting
- flowery
- fustian
- grandiloquent
- grandiose
- high-and-mighty
- high-flown
- highfalutin
- hoity-toity
- imperious
- important
- inflated
- magisterial
- magniloquent
- narcissistic
- orotund
- ostentatious
- overbearing
- overblown
- pontifical
- portentous
- presumptuous
- pretentious
- puffy
- rhetorical
- self-centered
- self-important
- selfish
- showy
- sonorous
- stuck-up
- supercilious
- turgid
- uppity
- vain
- vainglorious
- windy
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