patrician
Example Sentences
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The Athenian patrician Thucydides began writing the history of his city’s conflict with Sparta even as the war was beginning.
TV fans who only know her patrician British mum characters should check out Walter’s tongue-in-cheek performance as a Russian gymnast-turned-assassin on Season 3 of “Killing Eve.”
From Los Angeles Times
Fans might be disappointed to learn that in the documentary Ridgeley is heard but not seen as he appears today: debonair and patrician, with silver hair and a still-cheeky smile.
From New York Times
His patrician, retiring style — and quavering immodulated voice — belies the urgency of his arguments against the modern political establishment that has destroyed his family’s beloved Democratic Party.
From Washington Times
Raised in Connecticut and rooted in Texas, the patrician Bush came across as a hapless tourist squinting to understand the dialect and comprehend the natives.
From Los Angeles Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
