magnifico

Example Sentences

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He fed a story to the Independent, revealing that McDaniel was not the only magnifico with an interest in Dulwich.

From The Guardian • Oct. 26, 2018

Every single thing Ranieri has done all season has been magnifico.

From The Guardian • May 15, 2016

Last week William Fox, that bald and beady-eyed onetime magnifico of cinema, sprang at his adversaries in eleven directions at once.

From Time Magazine Archive

Most forcible expression came from the onetime First Lord of the Admiralty, Leopold S. Amery, in a London speech: Jay Cooke I was a 19th-Century magnifico, and looked it.

From Time Magazine Archive

What it meant no wizard could guess; and merely as a subject to allure by uncertain hopes, on the old maxim of "omne ignotum pro magnifico," the choice of that word had considerable merit.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 342, April, 1844 by Various