Fustian is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for FUSTIAN in dictionary:

NOUN:
• a coarse, sturdy cloth of cotton and flax
• thick, hard-wearing twilled cloth with a short nap, usually dyed in dark colours
• pompous or pretentious speech or writing
• (formerly) a hard-wearing fabric of cotton mixed with flax or wool
• A kind of coarse twilled cotton or cotton and linen stuff, including corduroy, velveteen, etc.
• An inflated style of writing; a kind of writing in which high-sounding words are used,\' above the dignity of the thoughts or subject; bombast.
• pompous or pretentious talk or writing
• a strong cotton and linen fabric with a slight nap
ADJECTIVE:
• Made of fustian.
• Pompous; ridiculously tumid; inflated; bombastic; as, fustian history.
• cheap
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• a cotton fabric

Words related to FUSTIAN

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Words that contain FUSTIAN

fustians11 fustianise13 fustianist13 fustianize22 rumfustian15 fustianised15 fustianises14 fustianists14 fustianized24 fustianizes23 rumfustians16 fustianising16 fustianizing25

How to use FUSTIAN in a sentence

• His clothes were of fustian, and his boots hobnailed, yet in his progress he showed not the mud-accustomed bearing of hobnailed and fustianed peasantry.
• On the other hand, how he despised fustian and bombast.
• It seems as if a certain quantity of fustian must be blown off before you reach the good material.
• His diction is often inflated into fustian, and he indulges in exaggeration till it sometimes, unconsciously no doubt, amounts to falsehood.
• His doublet of serge and his fustian hose were stained with liquor from the vats, and his eyes were heavy with sleep.
• His poetry was verbose fustian, and his prose a maze of far-fetched expressions and perplexed phrases.
• He wore a brown holland suit in summer, in colder weather a fustian one of like colour, and at first glance you might mistake him for a Quaker.
• Jacob Bright was educated at the Ackworth school of the Society of Friends, and was apprenticed to a fustian manufacturer at New Mills.
• Haim brightly, seizing gratefully on the fustian phrase, eager to hall-mark it as genuine and put it among his treasures.
• The bric-a-brac and fustian of the Romantics has disappeared, to be replaced by a clear, detailed, profound presentment of the life of the past.
• The man, who approached, was dressed like the trunk of a tree in winter when it is clothed in the rough fustian of moss.
• Only a Man, but away at his back, In a dozen ears, on the steely track, A hundred passengers place their trust In this fellow of fustian, grease, and dust.
• Claude Melnotte after Hamlet! Oddly enough, Henry was always attracted by fustian.

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