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Significats de portentous en anglès

Puffed up with vanity.

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Ominously prophetic.

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Of momentous or ominous significance.

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Ús de portentous en anglès
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But it was a portentous moment in Irish commercial and social history.
The Irish Times
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The political aspects of the times were now portentous in the extreme.
The Poetical Works of John Dryden, Volume 1 / With Life, Critica...
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The situations of the principal powers of Europe are singular and portentous.
State of the Union Addresses (1790-2006)
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But there is something portentous in the change in Chichester, said Malling.
The Dweller on the Threshold
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Such was the matter-of-fact manner in which the portentous news was announced.
A Modern Chronicle — Volume 01
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Tea was brought in by portentous, powdered footmen in scarlet and gold.
The Fortunate Youth
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That would be the most portentous, the most awe-inspiring event in history.
The Sisters-In-Law: A Novel of Our Time
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The portentous tone of the Frenchman's words was born of bitter experience.
The Irish Times
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Perhaps because I'm more portentous than they are, she said, and smiled.
The Shelters of Stone
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The dinner had portentous suggestiveness; the Leidchardt'stonians were at first rather difficult.
Lady Bridget in the Never-Never Land: a story of Australian life
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Anthony Hopkin's Odin also returns to deliver yet more portentous fatherly wisdom.
The Guardian
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Black clouds hung in huge, portentous masses over, the vault of heaven.
Withered Leaves from Memory's Garland
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There was something heavy, portentous, in the air of this June evening.
The Goose Man
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The amount of reading that has gone to it is almost portentous.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 76, February, 1864 / A Maga...
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The opening is portentous and soon becomes a driving whirlwind of tone.
Chopin : the Man and His Music
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This is true, and it is what makes the present situation portentous.
Woman and the Republic / A Survey of the Woman-Suffrage Movement...
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