quondam
Example Sentences
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You get the porthole windows of the quondam Seamen’s Union building and a tiny storefront that grandly introduces itself as the National School of Dancing.
From The New Yorker • Nov. 26, 2016
Hitchens was, not for the first time, drawing on the conceptual repertoire of his quondam Trotskyism to justify his stance.
From The Guardian • Jan. 18, 2013
Dr. Peters, quondam Commissioner for Disarmament, was appointed Foreign Currencies Controller with authority to seize all foreign currencies not being legitimately utilized for purchase of raw materials and foodstuffs abroad.
From Time Magazine Archive
He also chided his quondam Soviet hosts as barbaric "Bolsheviks" determined to subjugate the sturdy people of Afghanistan.
From Time Magazine Archive
He put his laser beam away, bent, and, with curiosity, examined the body of his quondam superior.
From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
